---
title: "Graphcore: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Graphcore Limited is a British semiconductor company that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning. It has introduced a massively parallel Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) that holds the complete machine learning model inside the processor."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-graphcore
type: Organization
wikidata: Q38251361
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphcore
website: https://www.graphcore.ai/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Graphcore

> Graphcore Limited is a British semiconductor company that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning. It has introduced a massively parallel Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) that holds the complete machine learning model inside the processor.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-graphcore

## Facts

- Category: Chips and hardware
- Country: United Kingdom
- Founded: 2016-01-01
- Headquarters: Bristol
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.graphcore.ai/
- Also known as: Graphcore Limited
- Industries: semiconductor industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/graphcoreai
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBX_e0R_EPhAlDNJTMi4Svw
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/graphcoreai

## Key people

- Nigel Toon, founder (British entrepreneur and author)
- Nigel Toon, chief executive (British entrepreneur and author), since 2016-01-01
- Nigel Toon, chair (British entrepreneur and author), since 2016-01-01

## Products

- computer hardware

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Graphcore, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-graphcore#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38251361, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphcore

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