Chinese semiconductor company, Tianshu Zhixin, has launched the ‘Big Island’ GPGPU. This is China’s first domestically-developed 7nm GPGPU for the data centre and cloud market. The Big Island GPGPU has been designed for AI training, high-performance computing (HPC), and other industries, including education, Internet, finance, among many others.
According to Tianshu Zhixin (via TomsHardware), the Big Island GPGPU (general-purpose graphics processing unit) is based on the 7nm process node and makes use of 2.5DCoWoS (chip-on-wafer-on-substrate) packaging technology to accommodate 24 billion transistors. The foundry responsible for the chip’s production hasn’t been unveiled.
Cai Quangen, chairman of Tianshu Zhixin, said that the development process of the Big Island chip is a milestone to the company’s product development and to China’s HPC independent research and development. The development of this GPGPU had a duration of about two years, from the R&D phases to t