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I thought it would be handy to use AI to make the code from the paper so a few months ago I tried to use Claude (not GPT, because I only have access to Claude) to recreate C++ code to implement the algorithms in this paper as practice for me in LLM use and it didn’t go well.

https://users.cs.duke.edu/~reif/paper/chen/graph/graph.pdf

Comment · 11 months ago

100GW per year is not going to happen.

The largest plant in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China at 22GW and it’s off the scales huge. We’re not building the equivalent of four of those every year.

Unless the plan is to power it off Sam Altman’s hot air. That could work. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations

Comment · 11 months ago

Cost per transistor is increasing. or flat, if you stay on a legacy node. They pretty much squeezed all the cost out of 28nm that can be had, and it’s the cheapest per transistor.

“based on the graph presented by Milind Shah from Google at the industry tradeshow IEDM, the cost of 100 million transistors normalized to 28nm is actually flat or even increasing.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/chi...

Comment · 11 months ago

I’m with you, I’m not sure the volume or cost would be less once you factor in capacitors that are high enough quality for the application.

The datasheet mentions low profile a lot. That does make sense as one can make a flat, high quality, capacitor. Making a flat high quality inductor is harder and probably more expensive and likely consumes more volume overall. I can imagine some applications where being flat is important, like the back of a panel.

Comment · 11 months ago

These types of switching circuits are very common inside ASIC where the high speed isn’t an issue, you don’t need to move all that much charge, and one can’t easily (if at all) support inductors.

Comment · 11 months ago

Intel opened a packaging facility in New Mexico in January that’s supposed to their largest.

https://newsroom.intel.com/intel-foundry/updates-intel-10-la...

Comment · 11 months ago

Maybe valued at >$1B, but who do you sell it to?

Comment · 11 months ago

Packaging is something Intel does very well and they have facilities is the USA. The rumor is many companies might do final assembly with Intel.

https://www.eetimes.com/intels-embarrassment-of-riches-advan...