An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 19, 2024
- April 18, 2024
- April 17, 2024
- April 16, 2024
- April 15, 2024
- April 14, 2024
- April 13, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Slashdot
- Techcrunch
- TutsPlus - Code
- Spoon Graphics
- Six Revisions
- Creative Curio
- FanExtra - PSD
- Noupe
- 24 Ways
- Willems Lab
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
August 20, 2021 06:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UiarJLC07d8/the-worlds-largest-computer-chip
The World's Largest Computer Chip
silverjacket writes: A feature article at The New Yorker: 'A typical computer chip is the size of a fingernail. Cerebras's is the size of a dinner plate. It is the largest computer chip in the world.' An excerpt from the story: Even competitors find this feat impressive. "It's all new science," Nigel Toon, the C.E.O. and co-founder of Graphcore, told me. "It's an incredible piece of engineering -- a tour de force." At the same time, another engineer I spoke with described it, somewhat defensively, as a science project -- bigness for bigness's sake. Companies have tried to build mega-chips in the past and failed; Cerebras's plan amounted to a bet that surmounting the engineering challenges would be possible, and worth it. "To be totally honest with you, for me, ignorance was an advantage," Vishra said. "I don't know that, if I'd understood how difficult it was going to be to do what they did, I would have had the guts to invest."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UiarJLC07d8/the-worlds-largest-computer-chip
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..More About this Source Visit Slashdot