Artificial Intelligence Unit
Award: Graphite Pencil
Graphite Pencil / Product Design / Industrial / 2024
The AI Hardware team within IBM Research develops next-generation hardware and software to meet the energy and computing demands of the generative AI era. The need for AI compute doubles every 3-4 months and running today's large deep learning models on either CPUs or GPUs is neither efficient nor sustainable. The Artificial Intelligence Unit (AIU) is a new chip architecture invented specifically for AI workloads. Servers and chips are often hidden—living in cold dark boxes in even colder darkened rooms. We designed this showcase AIU cluster to bridge the gap between people and technology.
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