The World's Biggest Computer Chip
When it comes to computer chips,size matters.Smaller has always meant better.According to Moore's law,the number of transistors that can squeeze onto a silicon chip doubles every two years,enabling sleeker and more powerful devices.
Now,a California-based company is upending that notion.In August 2019,the Silicon Valley,Los Altos-headquartered Cerebras introduced the largest chip ever produced.The chip,named the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE),is made out of an entire silicon wafer.Roughly the size of an Apple iPad,it measures 46 225 mm2,an area about 56 times bigger than the next largest chip,NVIDIA'S GV100 Volta graphics processing unit (GPU),which spans 815mm2 (Fig.1).While the NVIDIA GPU contains 21.1 billion transistors,the WSE holds 1.2 trillion [1,2].
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2020-06-04(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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