{"id":116023,"date":"2020-11-18T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/cerebras-wafer-size-chip-is-10000-times-faster-than-a-gpu"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:26:00","slug":"cerebras-wafer-size-chip-is-10000-times-faster-than-a-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/cerebras-wafer-size-chip-is-10000-times-faster-than-a-gpu","title":{"rendered":"Cerebras\u2019 wafer-size chip is 10,000 times faster than a GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cerebras-wafer-size-chip-is-10000-times-faster-than-a-gpu.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/08\/19\/cerebras-puts-worlds-largest-computer-chip-in-lassen-supercomputer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cerebras Systems<\/a> and the federal Department of Energy\u2019s National Energy Technology Laboratory today announced that the company\u2019s CS-1 system is more than 10,000 times faster than a graphics processing unit (GPU).<\/p>\n<p>On a practical level, this means AI neural networks that previously took months to train can now train in minutes on the Cerebras system.<\/p>\n<p>Cerebras makes the world\u2019s largest computer chip, the WSE. Chipmakers normally slice a wafer from a 12-inch-diameter ingot of silicon to process in a chip factory. Once processed, the wafer is sliced into hundreds of separate chips that can be used in electronic hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cerebras Systems and the federal Department of Energy\u2019s National Energy Technology Laboratory today announced that the company\u2019s CS-1 system is more than 10,000 times faster than a graphics processing unit (GPU). On a practical level, this means AI neural networks that previously took months to train can now train in minutes on the Cerebras system. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}