The world's largest chip

[Hotrod2go]

Not sure if this should go in CPU or GPU discussions because it appears to be a hybrid of both...

https://www.cerebras.net/technology/

• 46,225 mm2 chip (56x larger than the biggest GPU ever made)
• 400,000 cores (78x more cores)
• 18 GB on-chip SRAM (3000x more on-chip memory)
• 33,000x more bandwidth (100 Pb/s interconnect)

Now this is interesting....

 

[UltraTaco]

What's it for? How is it better than a rack full of servers?

 

[ShrimpBrime]

What's it for? How is it better than a rack full of servers?

Yes, this chip is designed for Artificial Intelligent Machine Learning.

So instead of cloud based learning hardware, this company simply designed a monster compute core in place of cloud processing.

 

[UltraTaco]

It must be uber expensive to have one giant chip vs many ryzen epycs..

 

[EarthDog]

It doesnt replace the cloud... it replaces gpus by being much faster and more efficient in the cloud.

 

[Hotrod2go]

What kind of mobo does it sit on? Will it OC?
So many questions, very curious beast indeed!

 

[UltraTaco]

4.2ghz all cores max.
(You won't get anything epyc out of it..)

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

I wonder how this monster will do on Folding @ Home

 

[wagex]

It must be uber expensive to have one giant chip vs many ryzen epycs..

4.2ghz all cores max.
(You won't get anything epyc out of it..)

either you failed to read or dont comprehend. 400,000 cores on one chip.

say you had 64 core epyc chips running at 3.4ghz. (225w) it would take 6,250 to = 400k cores.
6,250*225w= 1,406,250 watts or 1406.25KW
you are looking at 1406.25*.12 = $4050 per day in electricity just to run the cpu's alone not including overhead (RAM, efficiency loss in psu ect) or air conditioning costs.

this chip uses 10-14KW so 1 percent of the power consumption.

other than power efficiency, this is not an x86 cpu it is a much more flexible system, from what i read it is more similar to a gpu.

 

[mackerel]

This wafer scale chip is designed for AI uses, so probably wont be much use for anything else. I saw recently the DOE have put in orders for it.

 

[don256us]

I like their tag line. "Reduce the cost of curiosity."

 

[ihrsetrdr]

I wonder how this monster will do on Folding @ Home

...first thought that came to my mind.