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Startup Spins Whole Wafer for AI

Cerebras taps wafer-scale integration for training

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 19, 2019 – 

Startup Cerebras will describe at Hot Chips the world's largest semiconductor device, a 16nm wafer-sized processor array that aims to unseat Nvidia's GPUs dominance in training neural networks. The whopping 46,225mm2 die consumes 15kW, packs 400,000 cores, and is running in a handful of systems with at least one unnamed customer.

Also, at this week's event Huawei, Intel and startup Habana will detail their chips for training neural networks. They all aim to attack Nvidia which last year sold about $3 billion in GPUs for the performance-hungry application.

Intel's 1.1 GHz Spring Crest aims to stand out from the pack by ganging its 64 28G serdes into 16 112Gbit/second lanes linking up to 1,024 chips. The proprietary interconnect is a direct, protocol-less link that does not need to pass through external HBM2 memory, enabling a relatively fast way to spread large neural networks across multiple processors and chassis.

By putting all its cores, memories and interconnects on one wafer, the Cerebras approach will be even faster and fit in one box.

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