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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Name the company which has unveiled the world’s largest single silicon-based processor named Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine(WSE).
A
Arterys In
B
DataRobot
C
Microsoft
D
Cerebras Systems
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -LOS ALTOS, Calif. –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cerebras Systems, a company dedicated to accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) compute, today unveiled the largest AI processor ever made, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Intel Core i9-13980HX features eight performance cores, 16 efficient cores, and 32 threads, along with support for up to 128GB RAM.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is 26 inches tall and fits in one-third of a standard data center rack. The WSE-2 has 850,000 cores and 2.6 trillion transistors. The WSE-2 expanded on-chip static random-access memory (SRAM) to 40 gigabytes, memory bandwidth to 20 petabytes per second and total fabric bandwidth to 220 petabits per second.

Detailed explanation-4: -A single WSE-2 chip has the size of a wafer, measuring 21cm across, and contains 2.6 trillion transistors and 850,000 AI-optimized cores - all packed on a single wafer-sized 7nm processor.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cerebras launches new AI supercomputing processor with 2.6 trillion transistors | VentureBeat.

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