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It would be petty and counterproductive to do it just for consistency of enforcing the wrongness.
[1] see eg https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS/tree/develop/kernel/...
The web page tells that the app can be used to switch between eco/normal mode but that seems to be the extent of it.
With ring-0 access, this lets you poke "even things walled off and invisible to ring-0 or the CPU itself" including things that the security processor tries hard to wall off.
Also the post referenced by the article lists Python taking noticeably less tokens than Javascript.
(Is Cerebras doing something novel? CPUs and memory blocks have been doing those things for a long time too, since the error rate is otherwise too high for normal size chips as well)
[1] see eg https://www.vlsimentor.com/dft/redundancy-bisr to get some basic concepts
tldr; to workaround the lack (or shortcomings) of public m2m APIs in web apps
Also building high complexity systems that require a big expensive cloud engineer staff gets you status and visibility. In a tight spot you can still blame AWS for problems.
(Reality is not quite so bleak as people are not completely cynical)
Of course in the alternative history Intel might have done something else in place of IA64 that competed with amd64...
If AMD had launched amd64 server chips those vendors onboard we might have had a different 64-bit x86 market. And those vendors would have had a chance to succeed or fail on their own merits instead of due to dead end chip.