100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem

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100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem I learned a bunch about how chip manufacture works from this piece where Cerebras reveal some notes about how they manufacture chips that are 56x physically larger than NVIDIA's H100. The key idea here is core redundancy: designing a chip such that if there are defects the end-product...