# NorthPole **Type:** AI accelerator architecture **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition NorthPole is IBM's memory-compute-integrated accelerator architecture discussed as a low-latency, high-bandwidth inference system. ## Relationships [[wiki/NorthPole|NorthPole]] is related to [[wiki/IBM|IBM]], [[wiki/Neuromorphic Computing|neuromorphic computing]], and near-body neural inference as a comparative architecture. ## Source route [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Neurotech source route **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Source article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]