AI companies are increasingly moving away from traditional GPUs and towards custom hardware solutions for powering inference. This shift sees vendors utilising alternative silicon from companies such as Cerebras and Marvell.
Cerebras, a company known for its large chips, has unveiled its next-generation CS-4 rack-scale system. This new architecture features three chips in a modular design, allowing for easier interchangeability of components. The CS-4 systems have doubled the clock speed, memory bandwidth, and I/O speed of their chips, effectively achieving twice the compute performance from the same silicon.
In related news, Microsoft has introduced several updates to Windows 11. Users can now move the taskbar, gain more control over context menus, and monitor their neural processing units (NPUs) within the Task Manager.