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If you're referring to the big circle of silicon, that's a wafer, generally contains many chips (100-1000s).
by tantalor 4mo ago
If you're referring to the big circle of silicon, that's a wafer, generally contains many chips (100-1000s).
- thrtythreeforty 4mo agoFor reticle-limit chips, it's on the order of 100. And less than that once you filter out bad dies.
- jupr 4mo agoThat made me chuckle but I guess if you have never seen one I could see how that assumption could be made. If this photo is real I wonder what can be revealed about the approach they have taken by analyzing the architecture of what we can see.
- mdp2021 4mo ago> That made me chuckle but I guess if you have never seen one I could see how that assumption could be made It's more like that "wafer as a big-chip" (more formally, "WSE - Wafer Scale Engine") is now a reality (see Cerebras). But in this case, the wafer will be split into a few dozen chunks.
- arcanemachiner 4mo agoThe alt text of the first image describes it as the "Jalapeño inference chip". As a non-RTFA-er. I'm assuming it's a wafer-scale chip, similar to the ones made by Cerebras. EDIT: From TechRadar[0]: "The 300mm wafer that both CEOs are holding will generate about 50 to 60 ASICs." [0] https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-and-openai-debut-jalapeno-intelligence-processor-plot-an-apple-like-move-to-build-the-full-stack https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-and-openai-debut-jala...
- moralestapia 4mo agoEverybody here knows that. What some don't know (including you) is that the industry is doing wafer-sized chips nowadays, of which Cerebras is the flagship company. That's why the stock movement could be related, and that is why GP wrote that comment.