Over the years, China’s efforts to become self-sufficient in technology have certainly become familiar to everyone who follows the industry. Now China’s Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor has announced that it has completed its first GPGPU computing circuit for data centers.

Named Big Island by Tianshu Zhixin, the GPGPU is built from as many as 24 billion transistors and is manufactured using a 7-nanometer manufacturing process. According to Tom’s Hardware, the circuit manufacturer is not public information, but the information provided about the process is consistent with TSMC’s process. The so-called district. tape-out, ie the completion of the finished masks used in its manufacture, took place in May last year. According to a published rendering of the circuit, it is supported by four stacks of HBM memory.

So far, Big Island’s performance readings are still partially obscured. According to Tianshu Zhixin, the circuit would achieve TFLOPS performance with FP 16 accuracy 147 when its most direct competitors AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI 100 achieves 184, 6 TFLOPS and NVIDIA A 100 77, 97 TFLOPS with the same accuracy. In addition to FP 16 accuracy, Big Island also supports all other general calculation accuracies, including the relatively newcomer BF 16 or BFloat 16.

Source: Tom’s Hardware