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Melatonicyesterday at 11:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Cerebras chips are massive and do have more on the edge but they dont have any top or bottom cache do they?


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jaggederestyesterday at 11:43 PM

They can't due to power density, I believe - they have to be run in a sandwiched waterblock with massive cooling, as far as I can tell. That's the biggest thing that baked weights gets you - a relatively modest watts-per-square-mm compare to cerebras, where they had to engineer a whole system to get the watts out of the chip