World's largest processor with 1.2 trillion transistors unveiled

US-based startup Cerebras Systems has unveiled the world's largest single silicon-based processor, the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine. The chip is the world's first trillion-transistor processor comprising 1.2 trillion transistors, 400,000 AI-optimised cores and 18 GB of memory. The chip, made especially to enhance the development work of AI, has 56 times more silicon area than the largest GPU.