Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia.

More than 10,000 times faster than a GPU

Cerebras Systems and the federal Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory announced that the company's CS-1 system is more than 10,000 times faster than a graphics processing unit (GPU).

Designed for AI

Cerebras Systems announced the biggest chip the world has ever seen, the "wafer-scale engine," or "WSE."