{"id":121966,"date":"2021-04-25T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-worlds-biggest-ai-chip-now-comes-stock-with-2-6-trillion-transistors"},"modified":"2021-04-25T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:23:32","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-ai-chip-now-comes-stock-with-2-6-trillion-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-worlds-biggest-ai-chip-now-comes-stock-with-2-6-trillion-transistors","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Biggest AI Chip Now Comes Stock With 2.6 Trillion Transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-biggest-ai-chip-now-comes-stock-with-2-6-trillion-transistors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s biggest AI chip just doubled its specs\u2014without adding an inch.<\/p>\n<p>The Cerebras Systems Wafer Scale Engine is about the size of a big dinner plate. All that surface area enables a lot more of everything, from processors to memory. The first WSE chip, <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/08\/26\/this-giant-ai-chip-is-the-size-of-an-ipad-and-holds-1-2-trillion-transistors\/\">released in 2019<\/a>, had an incredible 1.2 trillion transistors and 400000 processing cores. Its successor <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/semiconductors\/processors\/cerebras-giant-ai-chip-now-has-a-trillions-more-transistors?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+IeeeSpectrum+(IEEE+Spectrum)\">doubles everything<\/a>, except its physical size.<\/p>\n<p>The WSE-2 crams in 2.6 trillion transistors and 850000 cores on the same dinner plate. Its on-chip memory has increased from 18 gigabytes to 40 gigabytes, and the rate it shuttles information to and from said memory has gone from 9 petabytes per second to 20 petabytes per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s biggest AI chip just doubled its specs\u2014without adding an inch. The Cerebras Systems Wafer Scale Engine is about the size of a big dinner plate. All that surface area enables a lot more of everything, from processors to memory. The first WSE chip, released in 2019, had an incredible 1.2 trillion transistors and [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121966","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=121966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}