https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-mulls-using-its-own-ai-chip-new-cloud-service-lower-costs-2023-07-11/

In an interview with Reuters at a semiconductor conference in San Francisco, Mukesh Khare, general manager of IBM Semiconductors, said the company is contemplating using a chip called the Artificial Intelligence Unit as part of its new "watsonx" cloud service.

Khare said the chip is manufactured by Samsung Electronics, which has partnered with IBM on semiconductor research, and that his company is considering it for use in watsonx.

https://research.ibm.com/blog/ibm-artificial-intelligence-unit-aiu