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tantaloryesterday at 6:04 PM4 repliesview on HN

If you're referring to the big circle of silicon, that's a wafer, generally contains many chips (100-1000s).


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arcanemachineryesterday at 6:13 PM

The alt text of the first image describes it as the "Jalapeño inference chip".

As a non-RTFA-er. I'm assuming it's a wafer-scale chip, similar to the ones made by Cerebras.

EDIT: From TechRadar[0]: "The 300mm wafer that both CEOs are holding will generate about 50 to 60 ASICs."

[0] https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-and-openai-debut-jala...

jupryesterday at 6:13 PM

That made me chuckle but I guess if you have never seen one I could see how that assumption could be made.

If this photo is real I wonder what can be revealed about the approach they have taken by analyzing the architecture of what we can see.

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thrtythreefortyyesterday at 6:11 PM

For reticle-limit chips, it's on the order of 100. And less than that once you filter out bad dies.

moralestapiayesterday at 6:20 PM

Everybody here knows that.

What some don't know (including you) is that the industry is doing wafer-sized chips nowadays, of which Cerebras is the flagship company.

That's why the stock movement could be related, and that is why GP wrote that comment.