Posted 1/16/2024, 5:00:17 AM
China Developing Wafer-Scale Big Chip to Boost AI Performance, Skirt US Sanctions
- Chinese scientists developing new "Big Chip" processor to circumvent US sanctions and boost AI/supercomputing performance
- The chip is wafer-sized, consisting of 16 chiplets with 256 cores, scalable up to 100 chiplets and 1,600 cores
- Big Chip uses new architectures like wafer-scale integration to break limits of traditional lithography
- An early Big Chip version named "Zhejiang" detailed in new research paper
- Big Chips face challenges like yield, cooling, and task mapping complexity