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Hardware Designed for Machine Intelligence

Bow IPU Processor

The AI processor delivering unprecedented performance and power efficiency for current and future ML innovation

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A Major Leap Forward

The Bow IPU is the first processor in the world to use Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) 3D stacking technology, taking the proven benefits of the IPU to the next level.

Featuring groundbreaking advances in compute architecture and silicon implementation, communication and memory, each Bow IPU delivers up to 350 teraFLOPS of AI compute, an impressive 40% leap forward in performance and up to 16% more power efficiency compared to the previous generation IPU.

PCIe

  • PCIe Gen4 x16
  • 64GB/s bidrectional bandwidth to host

Wafer-On-Wafer

  • Advanced silicon 3D stacking technology
  • Closely coupled power delivery die
  • Higher operating frequency and enhanced overall performance

Deep Trench Capacitors

  • Efficient power delivery
  • Enables increase in operational performance

IPU-Exchange™

  • 11TB/s all to all IPU-Exchange
  • Non-blocking, any communication pattern

IPU-Tiles™

  • 1472 independent IPU-Tiles each with IPU-Core™ and In-Processor-Memory™

In-Processor-Memory™

  • 900MB In-Processor-Memory per IPU
  • 65.4TB/s memory bandwidth per IPU

IPU-Core™

  • 1472 independent IPU-Cores
  • 8832 independent program threads executing in parallel

IPU-Links™

  • 10x IPU-Links
  • 320GB/s chip to chip bandwidth
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TSMC has worked closely with Graphcore as a leading customer for our breakthrough SoIC-WoW (Wafer–on-Wafer) solution as their pioneering designs in cutting-edge parallel processing architectures make them an ideal match for our technology. Graphcore has fully exploited the ability to add power delivery directly connected via our WoW technology to achieve a major step up in performance, and we look forward to working with them on further evolutions of this technology.

Paul de Bot, General Manager

TSMC Europe

What Makes IPUs Better For AI?

The IPU is a completely new kind of massively parallel processor, co-designed from the ground up with the Poplar® SDK, to accelerate machine intelligence.

The compute and memory architecture are designed for AI scale-out. The hardware is developed together with the software, delivering a platform that is easy to use and excels at real-world applications.

Parallelism

Processors

Memory

Memory Access

CPU

Designed for scalar processes

CPU

Off-chip memory

GPU

SIMD/SIMT architecture. Designed for large blocks of dense contiguous data

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Model and data spread across off-chip and small on-chip cache, and shared memory

IPU

Massively parallel MIMD. Designed for fine-grained, high-performance computing

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Model and data tightly coupled, and large locally distributed SRAM

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