China, which has made significant leaps in chip technologies, especially with the great incentives of the state, continues its surprise announcements. Although giants such as SMIC and Huawei are prohibited from doing business with TSMC in the latest production processes, there are also those who do not fall under the embargo.
Biren BR100 graphics unit draws attention
The BR100 graphics unit designed by Birentech has 77 billion transistors. The chip produced in the 7nm TSMC 2.5D CoWoS process has 300MB of integrated cache. Also, 64GB HBM2e and 2.3TB/s bandwidth are remarkable. Besides PCIe Gen 5.0, it also supports the CXL protocol.
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The graphics card, which can reach the level of 256TFLOPS as FP32, surpasses the Nvidia A100 chip in this state: It catches the Nvidia Hopper H100 chip in terms of the number of transistors. 64 and 512 channel decoding is also supported.
In addition to the BR100, the country’s most powerful general-purpose graphics unit, the BR104 graphics unit, which can reach half performance, has also been announced. This product includes 32GB HBM2e memory, 1.14TB/s bandwidth, 300W TDP. The actual performance of the Biren graphics units, which will mainly be offered to private or public institutions across the country, will be revealed after use.
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