TSMC Boss Says One-Trillion Transistor GPU is Possible By Early 2030s
The Register, Monday, April 1st, 2024
3D chiplets will be the key to building the world's first one-trillion transistor GPU, says TSMC chairman Mark Liu and chief scientist H.-S. Philip Wong.
The semiconductor industry is always going to want to cram more transistors into processors, but as Liu and Wong outline in a IEEE Spectrum report, AI has made this demand even more insatiable. Established companies and startups are snapping up as many GPUs as they can for the use of running AI workloads, and naturally chips with higher performance density are in high demand.
Liu and Wong argue that today's 100-billion transistor GPUs just won't cut it: one trillion transistors in a single GPU will be needed. The two argue that this trillion-transistor chip can come about as early as 2034, a decade from today.