Cerebras Systems, a developer of computing chips and systems dedicated to accelerating AI workloads, has unveiled the Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3), the third iteration of its semiconductor chip, which is claimed to be the world's largest. This new product is designed for the optimization of AI models and offers double the performance of its predecessor. The price of its solution remains unchanged.

The WSE-3’s design is equivalent to a 12-inch wafer. Key features include a transistor count boosted to 4 trillion, a reduction in transistor size from seven to five nanometers, an upgraded on-chip SRAM from 40 GB to 44 GB, and an increase in compute cores from 850,000 to 900,000. These additional enhancements have been achieved without greatly altering the ratio of logic transistors to memory circuits.

The company claims that the new chip makes AI models easier to program than GPUs by reducing the coding required to train advanced AI models.

Furthermore, Cerebras Systems has partnered with Qualcomm to use its AI processor to make real-time predictions. This partnership is believed to make running AI models more efficient and cost-effective.