Supercomputer-on-a-chip goes live: single PCIe card packs more than 6,000 RISC-V cores, with the ability to scale to more than 360,000 cores — but startup still remains elusive on pricing

InspireSemi Thunderbird I PCIe add-in card .

InspireSemi has announced the successful tapeout of the Thunderbird I Accelerated Computing chip for fabrication at TSMC. 

This highly differentiated "supercomputer cluster-on-a-chip" features 1,536 custom 64-bit RISC-V CPU cores, tailored for high-level scientific computing and complex data processing.