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Limits RegistryRather than cutting a silicon wafer into many individual chips as is standard practice, Cerebras Systems manufactures its Wafer-Scale Engine chips from a single, essentially uncut 300mm wafer, avoiding the interconnect bottlenecks of chip-to-chip communication for large AI workloads. The WSE-2 has roughly 2.55x the transistor count of its 2019 predecessor (the WSE-1, 1.2 trillion transistors) and, as of its release, was by a wide margin the largest chip ever built for any purpose.
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Rather than cutting a silicon wafer into many individual chips as is standard practice, Cerebras Systems manufactures its Wafer-Scale Engine chips from a single, essentially uncut 300mm wafer, avoiding the interconnect bottlenecks of chip-to-chip communication for large AI workloads. The WSE-2 has roughly 2.55x the transistor count of its 2019 predecessor (the WSE-1, 1.2 trillion transistors) and, as of its release, was by a wide margin the largest chip ever built for any purpose.
Cerebras Systems' Wafer-Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2), announced in April 2021, is manufactured from an entire 300mm silicon wafer as a single chip containing 2.6 trillion transistors and 850,000 AI-optimized cores, the largest computer chip ever manufactured by transistor count and physical die area.
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Limits Registry. LR-CEREBRAS-WAFER-SCALE-ENGINE. Cerebras WSE-2 — largest computer chip ever manufactured. 2026.