I made some analysis half a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109252 It appears that to have worki

I made some analysis half a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109252 It appears that to have working ASIC with the LLM baked into it we need to place and route macroblocks, and not a great variety of them. These macroblocks can be pre-placed-and-routed, available as masks already and shared between different LLMs. Thus it appears that the tapeout delay can be substantially lower than a year.