An A.I. Supercomputer comes to life, powered by giant computer chips
The new supercomputer, made by Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras, has been unveiled as A.I. The boom is driving demand for chips and computing power.
In a cavernous room this week in a one-story building in Santa Clara, Calif., six-and-a-half-foot-tall machines spun behind white cabinets. The machines were a new supercomputer that became operational last month.
The supercomputer, which was unveiled by Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras on Thursday, was built with the company's specialty chips designed to power artificial intelligence products. The chips are distinguished by their size - like that of a dinner plate, or 56 times larger than a chip commonly used for AI. Each Cerebras chip contains the computing power of hundreds of traditional chips.
Cerebras said it built the supercomputer for G42, an A.I. company. G42 said it plans to use the supercomputer to build and power A.I. products for the Middle East.
"What we're showing here is that there's an opportunity to build a very large, dedicated A.I. supercomputer platform," said Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras. He added that his startup wanted to "mount It's a world that this work can be done faster, that it can be done with less energy, that it can be done more cheaply." The world has had a boom in technology powered by a worldwide AI boom. could generate.
But doing AI typically requires significant amounts of computing power and specialized chips, leading to a fierce hunt for more of these technologies. In May, Nvidia, the main maker of chips used to power A.I. Systems, said appetite for its products - known as graphics processing units, or GPUs - was so strong that its quarterly sales would be more than 50% higher than Wall Street estimates. Forecasts have boosted Nvidia's market value above $1 trillion.
"For the first time, we are seeing a huge increase in the need for computers" thanks to AI. technologies, said Ronen Dar, founder of Run:AI, a startup in Tel Aviv that helps companies develop A.I. models. This has "created huge demand" for specialty chips, he added, and companies have "rushed to secure access to them". mc1 evys1bk0">To get your hands on enough A.I. chips, some of the biggest tech companies — including Google, Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel — have been developing their own alternatives. Startups such as Cerebras, Graphcore, Groq, and SambaNova have also joined the race, aiming to break into the Nvidia-dominated market that they could change the balance of power between tech companies and even nations. The Biden administration, for its part, has recently weighed the restrictions
The new supercomputer, made by Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras, has been unveiled as A.I. The boom is driving demand for chips and computing power.
In a cavernous room this week in a one-story building in Santa Clara, Calif., six-and-a-half-foot-tall machines spun behind white cabinets. The machines were a new supercomputer that became operational last month.
The supercomputer, which was unveiled by Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras on Thursday, was built with the company's specialty chips designed to power artificial intelligence products. The chips are distinguished by their size - like that of a dinner plate, or 56 times larger than a chip commonly used for AI. Each Cerebras chip contains the computing power of hundreds of traditional chips.
Cerebras said it built the supercomputer for G42, an A.I. company. G42 said it plans to use the supercomputer to build and power A.I. products for the Middle East.
"What we're showing here is that there's an opportunity to build a very large, dedicated A.I. supercomputer platform," said Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras. He added that his startup wanted to "mount It's a world that this work can be done faster, that it can be done with less energy, that it can be done more cheaply." The world has had a boom in technology powered by a worldwide AI boom. could generate.
But doing AI typically requires significant amounts of computing power and specialized chips, leading to a fierce hunt for more of these technologies. In May, Nvidia, the main maker of chips used to power A.I. Systems, said appetite for its products - known as graphics processing units, or GPUs - was so strong that its quarterly sales would be more than 50% higher than Wall Street estimates. Forecasts have boosted Nvidia's market value above $1 trillion.
"For the first time, we are seeing a huge increase in the need for computers" thanks to AI. technologies, said Ronen Dar, founder of Run:AI, a startup in Tel Aviv that helps companies develop A.I. models. This has "created huge demand" for specialty chips, he added, and companies have "rushed to secure access to them". mc1 evys1bk0">To get your hands on enough A.I. chips, some of the biggest tech companies — including Google, Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel — have been developing their own alternatives. Startups such as Cerebras, Graphcore, Groq, and SambaNova have also joined the race, aiming to break into the Nvidia-dominated market that they could change the balance of power between tech companies and even nations. The Biden administration, for its part, has recently weighed the restrictions
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