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doctorpangloss01/21/20251 replyview on HN

Time will tell, no? Transmeta shipped a lot of Crusoes. It was run by brilliant people. It was a “compelling alternative.” Maybe Cerebras is the Transmeta of this race, I don’t know. But. It’s not about making an alternative. It most definitely is about “beating” NVIDIA. Otherwise, you are just shoveling dollars - shareholders’, undercompensated employees at AMD and TSMC, etc. - to Meta, like everyone else.


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latchkey01/21/2025

The current ASIC's all fail in the memory game, they are not compelling. Cerebras is even more unavailable than AMD!

> It most definitely is about “beating” NVIDIA.

Hard disagree, but we are just going to have to agree to disagree on that.