Cerebras Systems has introduced a new server platform aimed at making AI inference faster, targeting the computing workloads used to generate responses in chatbots such as Anthropic’s Claude.
The new CS-4 is a server rack powered by 3 of Cerebras’ large, dinner-plate-sized chips. It is built around the company’s Nexus server architecture, which uses pluggable modules to house the chips. Cerebras says the larger chip design can improve speed by reducing the energy and performance loss caused by moving data between separate chips.
The system will be available in Q3 and uses chips manufactured by TSMC on a 5-nanometer process. Cerebras has also designed the CS-4 with 50% fewer components to simplify installation and speed up data centre construction.
The rack includes the WSE-3 Turbo chip and new networking components designed to accelerate data movement between chips. Cerebras plans to introduce another generation of its chip and server system in 2027.
CEO Andrew Feldman said the company expects to deliver 600 megawatts of computing power by the end of 2027. Its engineering roadmap is focused on increasing the amount of data future systems can process.
“We’re going to get four times as fast between now and the end of the year, end of 2027, and we’re going to get 20 times more throughput,” Feldman said.
Cerebras competes with Nvidia in AI hardware and is focusing on inference, the computing process behind generating chatbot responses.
The company reported an adjusted loss of $6.9 million on sales of $180.1 million in its latest results.
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