score: 7, Hardware, 2019-08-30 10:29:13, published by JaneCai
Cerebras has come up with the idea of etching a mass of individual chips onto a single wafer, instead of just using the wafer itself as a single giant chip. This allows all these individual cores to connect directly to each other, greatly accelerating the critical feedback loops used in deep learning algorithms - but at the expense of the huge manufacturing and design challenges of creating and managing these chips. [additional details]
