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I think this may be where some manufacturers are heading, but not necessarily the big "consumer" names like Intel/AMD. It's a way to significantly lower the ris
by pclmulqdq 3y ago
I think this may be where some manufacturers are heading, but not necessarily the big "consumer" names like Intel/AMD. It's a way to significantly lower the risk of building an SoC, and I think it's more plausible that this sort of third-party chiplet market will be driven by the Marvell/Broadcom types rather than Intel/AMD.
- touisteur 3y agoThere was something impressive with tenstorrent original architecture (haven't been following the talk about pivoting to risc-v) was the low cost of validation. It seemed like the idea was 'cheapest to tape-out with max FLOPS' and it somehow worked out well. Can't say more, I couldn't ever get my hands on one of them Grayskull so...
- pclmulqdq 3y agoQuietly, digital ASIC validation has gotten very cheap and quick over the last 20 years thanks to the proliferation of software models and compilers that translate Verilog to C++ (which are literally orders of magnitude faster than previous simulators). I'm not surprised that Tenstorrent has been doing well with that, given the expertise they have.