Why is building model architecture directly into silicon design a structural mistake?
Replied byAndrew Feldman
Co-founder & CEO at Cerebras Systems
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Approx. $72 Million/month
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Started: 2016
Models evolve rapidly. If you build a specific model's architecture directly into your hardware circuitry, your chip will have a very short commercial life. We focus on accelerating the underlying mathematical calculations, like sparse linear algebra, which supports any model.
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