AWS will bring Cerebras’ wafer-size WSE-3 chip to its cloud platform – SiliconANGLE

Amazon Web Services Inc. will make Cerebras Systems Inc.’s WSE-3 artificial intelligence chip available to its customers.

The companies announced the initiative today. It’s part of a multiyear partnership that will also see AWS and Cerebras develop a “disaggregated architecture” for AI inference workloads. The technology is expected to increase the speed at which AI models generate output by a factor of 5.

Cerebras’ WSE-3 chip includes 900,000 cores and 44 gigabytes of on-chip SRAM. The company ships the processor as part of a water-cooled appliance called the CS-3. The system, which is about the size of a mini-fridge, combines 1 WSE-3 with external memory, network equipment and other auxiliary components.

The newly announced partnership will see AWS deploy CS-3 appliances in its data centers. The systems will be made available to customers via the cloud giant’s AWS Bedrock service, which provides access to internally-developed and third-party foundation models….