Read more.The single 462cm2 chip is 200x faster than the NETL Joule 2.0 (84k core) supercomputer.
Read more.The single 462cm2 chip is 200x faster than the NETL Joule 2.0 (84k core) supercomputer.
200x faster or more because the processors are next to each other (like the neuro links of a human brain) thus magnitudes less latency unlike ordinary supercomputers which have several cabinets placed a metre or more from each other.
Yeah, but this Sh!t must be expensive! A wafer-wide chip can't possibly hope to achieve good yields. It's probably also being made on older, more mature process nodes. It is certainly impressive and a true feat of engeneering but I'm not sure it's actually practical. Plus cooling this large surface area is certainly a great task! Imagine how hard it must be to couple a cooling solution to a fragile silicon crystal this large without cracking it.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15838...mputing-center
I also thought the yields would be an issue, unless they included redundancies. Which they have.This was enabled through breakthrough techniques in cross-reticle patterning, but with the level of redundancy built into the design, ensured a yield of 100%, every time.
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