{"id":8317,"date":"2019-08-20T16:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8317"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:26:15","slug":"to-power-ai-cerebras-reveals-worlds-largest-computer-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8317","title":{"rendered":"To Power AI, Cerebras Reveals World’s ‘Largest Computer Chip’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The race among semiconductor makers to gain an edge in the booming market for specialised Artificial intelligence processors has just given rise to the world\u2019s biggest computer chip.<\/p>\n

A Californian-based start-up has unveiled the world’s largest computer chip.\u00a0The Wafer Scale Engine, designed by Cerebras Systems, is slightly bigger than a standard iPad.<\/p>\n

The firm says a single chip can drive complex artificial intelligence (AI) systems in everything from driverless cars to surveillance software.<\/p>\n

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The chip measures 21.5cm sq (3.3in sq)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The most powerful desktop CPUs (central processing units) have about 30 processor cores – each able to handle their own set of calculations simultaneously.<\/p>\n

GPUs (graphics processing units) tend to have more cores, albeit less powerful ones.<\/p>\n

The most powerful GPUs, including \u00a0speech recognition, image processing and pattern matching, have as many as 5,000 cores.<\/p>\n

But Cerebras’ new chip has 400,000 cores, all linked to each other by high-bandwidth connections.<\/p>\n

The firm claims the Wafer Scale Engine will reduce the time it takes to process some complex data from months to minutes.<\/p>\n

Cerebras has started shipping the hardware to a small number of customers.<\/p>\n

It has not yet revealed how much the chips cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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