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by dnautics 2361 days ago
> Yes, it's obvious that you can fit more transistors on a "chip" if you make the chip be much, much larger than what we ordinarily think of as a chip.

Without defending the article, it is however the case that simply scaling a chip size has nontrivial problems. For example, Will the piece of silicon warp or shatter if one side happens to get hotter than the other?

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Possibly. Wafer scale integration has been investigated before though and there were even a couple of attempts at commercial products; it's not a brand new technology. Nevertheless, it might be interesting to examine Cerebras' patents to see if anything of significance relating to WSI is there.