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Comment by quotemstr

1 day ago

You can pipeline in software too, and even with a dedicated circuit, you need to put weights somewhere, because you're not going to have a special partially-applied FP8 FMA unit for each of your trillion model weights.

I can accept the idea of specializing a circuit for a specific model shape, but I'm not seeing a need to specialize a circuit for the weights inside the shape.

Apparently that is what Taalas did though. Not an hardware person, so take this with a pinch of salt