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Founded 2016
Headquarters Bristol
Employees 201-500
UK presence UK headquartered Designs AI accelerator processors, its Intelligence Processing Units, and the systems and software that run machine-learning workloads on them. Headquartered in Bristol.
Editor's note
Once floated as Britain's answer to NVIDIA, Graphcore struggled to win share against the incumbent and was acquired by SoftBank in July 2024. It stays Bristol-based, and its fortunes are now a barometer for whether the UK can sustain homegrown AI silicon.
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