Cerebras announces second generation wafer-scale processor
Cerebras introduced the WSE – now the WSE-1 – in August 2019. It had an area of 46,225 square millimeters and 400,000 cores and 1.2 trillion transistors. The chip is optimized for AI applications.
The WSE-2 occupies the same area as the WSE-1 but contains 850,00 cores and 2.6 trillion transistors, suggesting a manufactruring process shrink from 16nm to 7nm.
The WSE-2 has 40 Gigabytes of on-chip memory, all uniformly distributed alongside the cores, and 20 Petabytes/sec of memory bandwidth. As a result, the WSE-2 can keep the entire neural network model in on-chip memory, all of the time, on the same piece of silicon as the compute cores.
The part and computer system along with compiler are expected to ship in 3Q21.
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