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Comment by teaearlgraycold

8 hours ago

Is that analogue or are they baking floating points into the silicon?

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AlotOfReading  7 hours ago

It's entirely possible they're using something like block floating point, where most of the hardware is simply fixed point. AMD's NPU does this, for example.

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