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azinman2yesterday at 8:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

Sure it does. If it’s many small dies on a wafer, then imperfections don’t ruin the entire batch; you just bin those components. If the entire wafer is a single die, you have much less tolerance for errors.


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dekhnyesterday at 8:19 PM

Although, IIUC, Cerebras expects some amount of imperfection and can adjust the hardware (or maybe the software) to avoid those components after they're detected. https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cereb...

pertymcpertyesterday at 8:26 PM

You can just do dynamic binning.