Cerebras's microprocessor boasts 57m times more transistors than the largest existing competitor
are tiny rectangles, becoming tinier with each new generation. Or so it used to be. These days Andrew Feldman, the boss of Cerebras, a startup, pulls a block of Plexiglas out of his backpack. Baked into it is a microprocessor the size of letter paper. “It’s the world’s biggest,” he says proudly, rattling off its technical specs: 400,000 cores , 18 gigabytes of memory and 1.2trn transistors.
Cerebras is leading a shift in semiconductors that was on display at Hot Chips, an industry gathering at Stanford University, where startups like Mr Feldman’s and giants such as Nvidia and Intel showed off their new silicon wares on August 19th.Cramming ever more transistors on standard chips—twice as many every 18 months, according to Moore’s Law, which has turned from an empirical observation to an industry benchmark—used to be the way to go.
As a result, chipmakers are now dialling up performance by, among other things, increasing the size of processors that inhale data to trainservices, from facial recognition to drug discovery. Cerebras has pushed this approach to the limit: its chip is the biggest that can be cut from the largest available wafers, the round sheets of silicon onto which transistors are etched.
To get there, the firm had to overcome more than one technical hurdle. One is defects: every wafer has some, so Mr Feldman’s team had to find a way to bypass faulty cores. Another is cooling: water pumped through tiny pipes carries away the great heat that cores generate.
Though the name Cerebras is meant to echo cerebrum, the largest part of the human brain, it also bears a resemblance to Cerberus, the giant three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades.
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