Hackaday

A 3D Printed Junction Transistor Model

Transistors are no doubt one of humankinds greatest inventions. However, the associated greatness brings with it unprecedented complexity under the hood. To fully understand how a transistor works, ...
NextBigFuture

1.2 Trillion Transistors on a Wafer-Scale AI Chip

The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the largest chip ever built and has one 1.2 trillion transistors. It is the heart of a deep learning system. It is 56x larger than any other chip. It delivers ...
Business Wire

Tezzaron Announces World’s First Eight-Layer Active Wafer Stack

SENDAI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at the IEEE 3DIC conference, Tezzaron Semiconductor and their manufacturing subsidiary, Novati Technologies, announce the world’s first eight-layer 3D IC wafer ...
SiliconANGLE

Cerebras Systems debuts wafer-scale AI training chip with 4T transistors

Semiconductor startup Cerebras Systems Inc. today debuted a new wafer-sized chip, the WSE-3, that features 4 trillion transistors organized into nearly 1 million cores. The processor is optimized for ...
Hackaday

transistor model

Transistors are no doubt one of humankinds greatest inventions. However, the associated greatness brings with it unprecedented complexity under the hood. To fully understand how a transistor works, ...
ExtremeTech

Cerebras Systems Unveils 1.2 Trillion Transistor Wafer-Scale Processor for AI

Modern CPU transistor counts are enormous -- AMD announced earlier this month that a full implementation of its 7nm Epyc "Rome" CPU weighs in at 32 billion transistors. To this, Cerebras Technology ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Soitec’s Wafer Roadmap for Fully Depleted Planar and 3D/FinFET

The following is a special guest post by Steve Longoria, Senior VP of Worldwide Business Development at Soitec. It first appeared as part of the Advanced Substrate News special edition on FD-SOI ...
ExtremeTech

Cerebras Unveils CS-3 Wafer-Scale AI Chip With 900,000 Cores and 4 Trillion Transistors

If you thought a chip like AMD's MI300A was big at 146 billion transistors, you ain't seen nothing yet. AI company Cerebras announced its third-generation AI chip, CS-3, a "wafer-scale" silicon ...
NextBigFuture

Cerebras Trillion Transistor AI Wafer-Chip Crushes GPU Supercomputer by 200 Times

Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Cerebras showed that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 X.
insideHPC

Cerebras Systems: 2.5 Trillion-plus Transistors in 7nm-based 2nd Gen Wafer Scale Engine

Maker of the world’s largest microprocessors, Cerebras Systems, today unveiled what it said is the largest AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) — successor to the first WSE introduced in 2019.
Ars Technica

Using 2D materials on chips without destroying the wiring

Silicon chip manufacturers like Intel and TSMC are constantly outdoing themselves to make ever smaller features, but they are getting closer to the physical limits of silicon. “We already have very, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Zero-Bias Power-Detector Circuits based on MoS

Scientists from RWTH Aachen University, AMO GmbH, AIXTRON SE, and EPFL have demonstrated power detectors based on Molybdenum disulphide (MoS 2) that operate at zero bias.