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Based on description it doesn't sound like SoC design, it sounds like a book about RISC-V microprocessors. To the untrained eye, that sounds similar, but a microprocessor is one part of an SoC, and sometimes it can be a very small part based off the role the microprocessor plays.

I think future is probably more similar to speculative execution (inference/decoding). A small LLM is used to speculate and a large LLM is used to confirm if needed. If the small LLM is accurate enough on N tokens it’s cheap for the large LLM to say looks good and keep moving along.

My guess is area becomes problematic. Chip becomes bigger, harder to manufacture without defects, costs rise as a result of those defects.

Bonus though, Apple is using "defective" chips in other products now such as the Neo which will help some with costs, but overall, you can't just add memory to the chip because the chip can become very yield sensitive, the process has to be there to produce the yield effectively.

I still don't know if I am sold with that. .NET is also a runtime so how do you handle the user story? If your users are also on Windows Lite then they have to manage .NET version or you have to package .NET with whatever you build. If your users are on full Windows, wouldn't it just make sense for you to build in same environment as your Users? Especially since IT would have to manage two separate operating systems if devs went Windows Lite and say Sales using the target app was on Windows.

This whole thing makes sense for indie devs or build VMs but breaks down for Enterprise pretty quick, and Microsoft is much more friendly to Enterprise customers than indie devs.

OP says Windows needs builders to make applications and that is what Windows Lite would enable (or expand) but then says Windows Lite shouldn't include .NET one of the primary frameworks to build applications on Windows.

Microsoft, Google, and Amazon also do this, but they also have the hyperscaler datacenter infrastructure to host the chips. Designing and taping out the chip is one thing, packaging, cooling, deploying, powering, and managing the fleet is another stack entirely. Wonder where that will come from?

I drive a 2004 truck, it's not as big as the newer trucks but it's still pretty big. My 2004 truck also has 0 sensors on it and no cameras. If I were driving a newer truck, I believe pedestrians would be safer because of the added safety sensors and cameras.

Why would Apple’s inference fleet be more efficient? They would need to get into the TPU/water cooling business to make that happen. Apple’s silicon is great but remember it’s based on ARM an already existing ISA with reference designs. The burden to make Apple’s CPU silicon is lower than what it would be to make a TPU.

Flip the classroom, make students learn the material on their own (Using AI or whatever resources they want to use) and then in-classroom time is divided on working on problems (without AI assistance which can be controlled in this environment) and quizzes/exams (again without AI). We don't need lectures anymore, they are an incredibly ineffective way to learn.

The AirPods Effect 1 month ago

Really I see it as the exact opposite. A walk around the neighborhood is highly unlikely to strike up random conversation with a stranger. Might run into a friend or someone friendly but they are likely going to approach with or without airpods

on prem cloud is harder because of the scale up and scale down requirements. If you are a growing business which most decent ones are, you constantly have to think about that.

Main use for consumers / tinkers. In industry, the main use is during pre-silicon development. You emulate the target processor and model the periphs and you have a complete virtual representation of your new SoC/MCU/etc before the hardware is available. Benefit being once you do get the hardware, you already have the entire software stack nearly ready to go and already tested.