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RetroTechietoday at 7:39 PM0 repliesview on HN

Very nice indeed. Model weights in RAM blocks distributed all over a big FPGA: should be super helpful at minimizing RAM bandwidth bottlenecks. To say nothing of latency.

But model(s) implemented are clearly too small to be useful as a 'chat partner'. Tried a couple of sentences - replies is just some gibberish coming out.

This really needs a bigger FPGA, or some other application(s) where a tiny LLM does actually useful work. Barring that, generated tokens/sec is kind of a meaningless measure imho.