alt Hacker NewsCIM does not bake the weights into silicon. The level of optimization that you can do down to the last transistor when the weights are fixed is on an entirely different level than CIM where you still need general purpose ALUs all over the place.
CIM does not bake the weights into silicon. The level of optimization that you can do down to the last transistor when the weights are fixed is on an entirely different level than CIM where you still need general purpose ALUs all over the place.
> CIM does not bake the weights into silicon
If that were the extent of the terms, then what could we call "baking the weights into silicon"? Setting parts of the circuits to determined values for multiplication is is like printing a Read-Only Memory. (And you compute at it: Compute In Memory.)
> CIM where you still need general purpose ALUs all over the place
If that were so, then why do taxonomists present analogue computing as part of CIM? Ohm's Law does not constitute an "ALU" the way you intend it.
Simply, I used CIM, "Compute In Memory", for lack of a better term - for "store data there where you modify data", for "beyond Von Neumann's separation of data storage and processor".