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ggmyesterday at 10:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

Field reprogrammable, it's an FPGA on steroids. Field upgradable.

Burnt in, it needs a zif socket and easy access in every car, aircraft, a pull out slot in a phone, or it's new era planned obselescence.


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XCSmeyesterday at 11:17 PM

Why not have some a device/hardware that programs itself on-boot.

Sort of a FPGA, that (electrically) arranges the connections on-boot, and then it's like a static inference chip.

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mdp2021yesterday at 10:39 PM

Can that be done when the whole idea is to store a multiplier into a handful of transistors?

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xyzsparetimexyzyesterday at 11:38 PM

It can just be pcie