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I just wonder about the reliability of a system that large. Sure, it's mostly used for machine learning where we don't seem to care as much, but what is the average MTBF of a chip this large? How many chips actually make it out of production?

Also, is this something that will likely scale up, or will this style of design hit a wall(power dissipation?) faster than, say, silicon-interconnect fabric?

Time will tell if this is the new path forward or just a curious footnote in the history of semiconductors.

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They built the chip specifically so that it can tolerate failures in some of the cores. I wonder if it can do that adaptation only once or if it can automatically detect it and route around it.