The BIE-1 computer will almost certainly be a big part in making neuromorphic computing at least that much more accessible to new engineers, being sold as a single unit rather than a rack-mounted system or part of a larger data center ecosystem. GDIIST hopes that the BIE-1 can be used for some of the more "important" AI use cases, such as medical research.
Prices and availability of the BIE-1 are currently unknown, not least because we have few firsthand sources for the device on the Western internet, but any cutting-edge technology with over 200 TB of high-speed storage is sure to cost at least an arm and a leg. If the BIE-1 does live up to half of its claims, it's sure to be a major win for neuromorphic computing and Chinese AI hardware.
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jp7189 What's so special with the number 1152 that both this machine and the Intel machine before it have the exact same number of cores? Reply
bit_user The article said: Researchers claim the machine reaches training speeds of 100,000 tokens per second and inference speeds of 500,000 tokens per second. To put these huge numbers into context, Nvidia's flagship Blackwell GB200 NVL72 AI server advertises inference speeds of 1.5 million tokens per second. Thanks, but the token rate is very specific to the the model. Specifically, its makeup in terms of the number of layers, their sizes, and types. That determines the amounts and types of computations needed to process a single token. Reply
bit_user jp7189 said: What's so special with the number 1152 that both this machine and the Intel machine before it have the exact same number of cores? Either coincidence, or maybe the Chinese team set a goal to equal or exceed Intel's number. I wouldn't read too much into it, though. It's very superficial and really doesn't tell us a whole lot. Reply
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