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by joe_the_user 2364 days ago
With 400k cores and their 'duplicate and re-route' defect strategy, this might literally be the most challenging compilation target ever made.

While I'd be generally skeptical, it seems like the compilation for the rerouting could be done on a single low level, below whatever their assembler is, and so the could just look like a regular array of cores - just a single array that translates from i to the ith "real" core and similar structures seems like it could be enough.

Edit: I mean, if they're smart, it seems like they'd make the thing look as much as possible like a generic GPU capable of OpenCL. I have no idea if they'll do that but since they have size, they won't have to sell their stuff an otherwise custom approach.