More on that monster Cerebras AI chip, Xilinx touts 'world's largest' FPGA, and more

More on that monster Cerebras AI chip, Xilinx touts 'world's largest' FPGA, and more

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/26/hot_chips_roundup/

Hot Chips Now that the Hot Chips conference is over until next year, let's bring you up to speed quickly on developments from and around the Silicon Valley event.

A real crowd-pleaser this year was Cerebras, an AI hardware startup, which unveiled what is claimed to be the largest ever chip for training artificially intelligence software. Founder and chief hardware architect Sean Lie flashed the bronze-colored iPad-sized processor on stage, and said the thing was “the largest square that could be carved from a single wafer.”