Instead of cutting a silicon wafer into hundreds of small chips, and then attempting to tie them together with slow wires, Cerebras (CBRS) leaves the wafer whole. The result is a single gigantic chip.
The main question for Cerebras Systems ahead of its IPO on May 14 was whether Wall Street would accept such an unusual technology. A technology, which, as the company claims, is capable of eliminating the delays of physical transmission of data between chips, simply because its product launches neural networks on a single silicon brain the size of a dinner plate.