IBM is showing off its first complete system-on-chip (SoC) designed to run and train deep learning models at a faster and more efficient clip than what general-purpose CPUs can achieve.
IBM is showing off its first complete system-on-chip (SoC) designed to run and train deep learning models at a faster and more efficient clip than what general-purpose CPUs can achieve. Big Blue is calling it an Artificial Intelligence Unit (AIU) and one of the notable features is that clients can install it just as they would a standard graphics card.
“It can be plugged into any computer or server with a PCIe slot,” IBM Research notes in a blog post announcing the card.
Be that as it may, the AIU is not a graphics accelerator like NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 or Intel’s Arc A770 and A750 cards.
