Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors

Re:Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors by ramshanker on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:39PM (#24206331)

I can't help imagining INTEL / AMD / NVIDIA doing the same with their own chips.

Top500 Supercomputer in a single Rack. Just imagine.

And if we take liberty to dream extreme, "Available on Amazon, On Demand". :D

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Re:Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors by hinkley on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:44PM (#24206936)

Someone is going to figure out that if they cut the wafers on a diagonal they can make even bigger wafers.

And someone will be spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to support a wafer cut lengthwise without shattering it during processing.

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Re:Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors by Tuna-Fish on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:52AM (#24207232)

That wouldn't work. Modern chips need to be built on epitaxial surfaces, and the only plane they can reliably produce an epitaxial surface on is the horizontal one.

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