Chinese start up comes with a world class GPU

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Chinese Startup Biren Details BR100 GPU

By Oliver Peckham

August 22, 2022

Amid the high-performance GPU turf tussle between AMD and Nvidia (and soon, Intel), a new, China-based player is emerging: Biren Technology, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai. At Hot Chips 34, Biren co-founder and president Lingjie Xu and Biren CTO Mike Hong took the (virtual) stage to detail the company’s inaugural product: the Biren BR100 general-purpose GPU (GPGPU).

“It is my honor to present our first-generation compute product: BR100,” Xu said. “BR100 is dedicated to addressing the challenges of AI training and inference in the datacenter, with augmented goals of increasing productivity and reducing overall cost of ownership.”

 Image courtesy of Biren.

At 1074mm2, the 77 billion-transistor, dual-die Biren BR100 (pictured in the header) will be manufactured on TSMC’s 7nm process and capable of 256 FP32 teraflops. The die-to-die interconnect provides 896GB/s bandwidth. The BR100 comes with up to 64GB of HBM2E

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There is a lot of reaction to this. Apparently this competes with the very high end GPUs out there.

 

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CHINA LAUNCHES THE INEVITABLE INDIGENOUS GPU

August 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It was absolutely inevitable that China would try to create its own GPU compute engines. It was never a given that it would succeed in only three years.

But with the launch of the BR series of products from Biren Technology, there is finally a credible homegrown GPU controlled by China for graphics and compute, and that is going to add even more competition to the already intense GPU market