Comment by adrianN

4 hours ago

It is my understanding that just baking the model itself into silicon only gives moderate gains because memory bandwidth remains a bottleneck.

Did you try using the the talaas chat? Something stupid like 18k tokens/second.

Think it's called Askjimmy or similar.

The big benefit is ROM cells require fewer components than DRAM. So the chips would be tiny, dense, cheap and consume far less power.

  • I thought DRAM was pretty dense already. Is mask ROM that much denser?

    • Yes, each rom bit can be a transistor or even a diode with a decoder circuit. Simplest Dram cell is capacitor+transistor - and you need a clock, refresh circuit etc.

      Someday, I imagine model weights could even be encoded as analog resistors (memristors or similar) for even greater density

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