Comment by IshKebab

Comment by IshKebab 3 months ago

6 replies

TSMC also have a manufacturing process used by Tesla's Dojo where you can cut up the chips, throw away the defective ones, and then reassemble working ones into a sort of wafer scale device (5x5 chips for Dojo). Seems like a more logical design to me.

bee_rider 3 months ago

Is this similar to a chiplet design? Chiplets have been a thing for a while, so I assume Cerebras avoided them on purpose.

  • IshKebab 3 months ago

    I don't think so - chiplets are much smaller and I think the process is different.

ryao 3 months ago

I had been under the impression that Nvidia had done something similar here, but they did not talk about deploying the space saving design and instead only talked about the server rack where all of the chips on the mega wafer normally are.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/gaming-tech/what-nvlink72-nvidia...

  • wmf 3 months ago

    That shield is just a prop that looks nothing like the real product. The NVL72 rack doesn't use any wafer-scale-like packaging.

    • ryao 3 months ago

      It would be nice if they made it real. The cost savings from not needing so much material should be fantastic.

mhh__ 3 months ago

Amazing. I clicked a button in the azure deployment menu today...