Silicon Valley company has made the largest, fastest chip ever to compete with Nvidia and others
While most computer-chip makers over the past decades have touted the benefits of an ever-shrinking product, a well-funded Silicon Valley company has built what it says is the largest and fastest-ever computer chip, dedicated to AI.
“We built the largest part ever made, the fastest ever made,” Cerebras co-founder and Chief Executive Andrew Feldman said. “We made a set of trade-offs. It is 100% for AI.” “No one has built a chip this big in the history of compute,” Feldman told MarketWatch, as he held up the dinner-plate-sized wafer. “This replaces the CPU and the GPU. This is the compute engine. This replaces everything made by Nvdia and Intel and AMD.” Last year, Cerebras’ invention was inducted into Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum, as the largest computer chip in the world.
Cerebras’ systems are designed for dedicated AI workloads, because AI is so incredibly processing-intensive, with its system designed to keep all the processing on the same giant chip. Feldman gave a simple analogy of watching a football game at home with the beer already on hand, compared with having to go to a store to buy some during the game. “All the communication is here, you are doing very small, short movements,” he said.
Before the recent deal with G42, Cerebras’ customer list was already an impressive collection of high-performance computing customers, including pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline GSK, +0.59%, for making better predictions in drug discovery, and AstraZeneca AZN, -0.31%, for running queries on hundreds of thousands of abstracts and research papers.
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