Largest commercial chip, 1.2 trillion transistors

Company called Cerebras has just released the Cerebras CS-1 computer with a chip they call a Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE).

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The WSE is the largest commercial chip ever manufactured, and the industry’s first wafer-scale processor, built from the ground up to solve the problem of deep learning compute. It consists of 1.2 trillion transistors, packed onto a single chip with 400,000 AI-optimized cores, connected by a 100Pbit/s interconnect. The cores are fed by 18 GB of super-fast, on-chip memory, with an unprecedented 9 PB/s of memory bandwidth. ... It is 26-inches (15 rack units) tall and fits in a third of a standard datacenter rack. It can ingest 1.2 Terabits per second of data, across twelve 100 Gigabit Ethernet lanes, is powered with standard IEC C20 16A power inlets, and cooled with ambient air.

Sounds very impressive and it's pretty small.

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