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In-memory computing (analog or digital). Still doing SIMD matrix multiplication but using more efficient hardware: https://arxiv.org/html/2401.14428v1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0655-z

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This is very interesting, but not what the Ironside TPU is doing. The blog post says that the TPU uses conventional HBM RAM.

There's been some talk/rumour of next-gen HBMs having some compute capability on the base die. But again, not what they're doing here, this is regular HBM3/HBM3e.

https://semiengineering.com/speeding-down-memory-lane-with-c...

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