InspireSemi’s Thunderbird AI Accelerator boasts up to 6,144 CPU cores and can scale up to 360,000 cores, surpassing Nvidia GPUs in performance – a ‘supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip’ powered by RISC-V technology.
InspireSemi is aiming to revolutionize supercomputing chip design with their Thunderbird ‘supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip’, which combines the versatility of CPUs with the parallelism of GPUs. The chip features 1,536 custom RISC-V cores, high-performance SRAM, accelerators for cryptography algorithms, and on-chip mesh structure for connectivity. It also supports LPDDR memory, NVMe storage, PCIe, and GbE connectivity. With plans … Read more