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I am sure it will happen, but the cost effectiveness and efficiency will drop so dramatically going from 1 wafer to just 2 wafers. 1 wafer, doing X work, in Y
by Nevermark 5y ago
I am sure it will happen, but the cost effectiveness and efficiency will drop so dramatically going from 1 wafer to just 2 wafers.
1 wafer, doing X work, in Y time
= 1 wafer, doing 2X work, in 2Y time
= Two wafers, doing 2X work, in something still close to 2Y time
I.e. the slowness of between-wafer communication, vs. in-wafer communication, will dwarf the computing time. Obviously there is some N, where N wafers would be worth clustering, but it might be quite high.
Maybe the company is working on ways to cut down cross-wafer communication too. Vertical optical connections for instance would be awesome.