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0 pointspankajdoharey1mo ago0 comments

There is nothing new here. This has been demonstrated several times by previous researchers:

For a real world use case, you would need an FPGA with terabytes of RAM. Perhaps it'll be a Off chip HBM. But for s large models, even that won't be enough. Then you would need to figure out NV-link like interconnect for these FPGAs. And we are back to square one.

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smokel1mo ago

This is new. You are citing FPGA prototypes. Those papers do not demonstrate the same class of scaling or hardware integration that Taalas is advocating. For one, the FPGA solutions typically use fixed multipliers (or lookup tables), the ASIC solution has more freedom to optimize routing for 4 bit multiplication.

pankajdohareyOP29d ago

I understand that what Taalas is claiming. I was trying to actually describe that model on a hardware is some not something new Or unthought of The natural progression of FPGA is ASIC. Taalas process is more expensive And not really worth it because once you burn a model on the silicon, the silicon can only serve that model. speed improvement alone is not enough for the cost you will incur in the long run. GPU's are still general purpose, FPGA's are atleast reusable but wont have the same speed. But this alone cannot be a long term business. Turning a model to hardware in two months is too long. Models already take quite a long time to train. Anyone going down this strategy would leave wide open field to their competitors. Deployment planning of existing models already so complicated.

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0 pointspankajdoharey1mo ago0 comments

There is nothing new here. This has been demonstrated several times by previous researchers:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06174

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03868

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smokel1mo ago

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