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There was something impressive with tenstorrent original architecture (haven't been following the talk about pivoting to risc-v) was the low cost of validation.
by touisteur 3y ago
There 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.