alt Hacker News> Kinda like a CD-ROM/Game cartridge, or a printed book, it only holds one model and cannot be rewritten.
Imagine a slot on your computer where you physically pop out and replace the chip with different models, sort of like a Nintendo DS.
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Would somewhat work except for the power usage.
I doubt it would scale linearly, but for home use 170 tokens/s at 2.5W would be cool; 17 tokens/s at 0,25W would be awesome.
On the other hand, this may be a step towards positronic brains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronic_brain)
That's the kind of hardware am rooting for. Since it'll encourage Open weighs models, and would be much more private.
Infact, I was thinking, if robots of future could have such slots, where they can use different models, depending on the task they're given. Like a Hardware MoE.
A cartridge slot for models is a fun idea. Instead of one chip running any model, you get one model or maybe a family of models per chip at (I assume) much better perf/watt. Curious whether the economics work out for consumer use or if this stays in the embedded/edge space.
Yeah maybe you can call it PCIe.
That slot is called USB-C. I can fully imagine inference ASICs coming in powerbank form factor that you'd just plug and play.