# 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]]