Cerebras' 100x Defect Tolerance: Cracking the Wafer-Scale Challenge
2025-01-15
Cerebras has defied conventional wisdom by building a 50x larger chip than its competitors while achieving comparable yields. The secret? A revolutionary approach to defect tolerance. By designing incredibly small AI cores (1% the size of an H100's core) and implementing a sophisticated routing architecture that bypasses defects, Cerebras achieves a remarkable 93% silicon utilization in its Wafer Scale Engine. This groundbreaking technology makes wafer-scale computing not just feasible, but commercially viable, opening new horizons for AI and high-performance computing.
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