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xnxyesterday at 7:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

Cerebras is a bit of a stunt like "datacenters in spaaaaace".

Terrible yield: one defect can ruin a whole wafer instead of just a chip region. Poor perf./cost (see above). Difficult to program. Little space for RAM.


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the_dukeyesterday at 7:47 PM

They claim the opposite, though, saying the chip is designed to tolerate many defects and work around them.