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Bolt Graphics tapes out its first Zeus GPU test chip on TSMC 12nm — firm touts 17x lower cost of compute

Tom's Hardware·Luke James·6 months ago
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Bolt Graphics has announced its completed tape-out of a test chip for its Zeus GPU, marking the California-based startup's first move from FPGA emulation to manufactured silicon — which it claims can deliver 17 times lower cost of compute.

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PCIe cards Row 0 - Cell 0 Bolt Zeus 1c26-032

Bolt Zeus 2c26-064

Bolt Zeus 2x26-128

Form factor

Single-slot PCIe

Dual-slot PCIe

Dual-slot PCIe

Board power

120 W

250 W

250 W

FP64/FP32/FP16 vector TFLOPS

5/10/20

10/20/40

10/20/40

INT16/INT8 matrix TFLOPS

307.2/614.4

614.4/1,228.8

614.4/1,228.8

On-chip cache

128 MB

256 MB

256 MB

Memory

Up to 160 GB, 32 GB LPDDR5X, 2x DDR5 SO-DIMMs

Up to 320 GB, 64 GB LPDDR5X, 4x DDR5 SO-DIMMs

Up to 384 GB, 128 GB LPDDR5X, 4x DDR5 SO-DIMMs

Bolt's stated product pipeline exceeds $500 million, and the company says over 14,000 enterprises, developers, and end users have joined its early access program.…

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