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punnerudtoday at 8:04 AM3 repliesview on HN

Could we all get bigger FPGAs and load the model onto it using the same technique?


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generusotoday at 8:30 AM

You could [1], but it is not very cheap -- the 32GB development board with the FPGA used in the article used to cost about $16K.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03868

fercircularbuftoday at 8:06 AM

I thought about this exact question yesterday. Curious to know why we couldn't, if it isn't feasible. Would allow one to upgrade to the next model without fabricating all new hardware.

wmftoday at 8:22 AM

FPGAs have really low density so that would be ridiculously inefficient, probably requiring ~100 FPGAs to load the model. You'd be better off with Groq.

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