IBM announces system-on-chip AI hardware

IBM announces system-on-chip AI hardwareSource: Venturebeat

Recent years have seen a growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration hardware. IBM has taken note.

In the earliest days of AI, commercial CPU and GPU technologies were enough to handle the technology’s data sizes and computational parameters. But with the emergence of larger datasets and deep learning models, there is now a clear need for purpose-built AI hardware acceleration.

IBM is now throwing its hat into the hardware acceleration ring with its announcement this week of the IBM Artificial Intelligence Unit (AIU). The AIU is a full system-on-chip board that can plug into servers via an industry-standard PCIe interface.

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