China combines multiple 22nm 256-core wafers and hopes to eventually produce 1600-core

2024-01-06 10:46:17

The Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently announced that it has produced large-scale chips with up to 256 cores, and announced that its future goal is to target 1,600 cores. This 256-core chip is called “Zhejiang”. It adopts a chiplet chip layout and is divided into 16 cores. Each core has 16 RISC-V architecture cores, for a total of 256 cores.

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According to “cnBeta”, this design of “Zhejiang” can be expanded to up to 100 cores in the future, thereby reaching 1,600 cores. But the most surprising thing is that this chip still continues to use the 22nm process. According to “cnBeta” estimates This chip comes from SMIC.

The Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is actually not the first unit to propose the concept of wafer-scale processors. American semiconductor company Cerebras Systems has released the world’s largest chip “WSE” (Wafer Scale Engine), but the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uses 22nm. The manufacturing process is far from the 3nm process currently advocated by the industry.

source:cnBeta

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