Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors

Re:Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors by 11thEarlOfMar on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:20PM (#24206834)

It must have some redundancy in order to survive process errors. Does it have to be defect-free to yield?

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Re:Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors by segfaultbuserr on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:24PM (#24206850)

Answered in the PDF [0] that HN user "aveni" linked below,

> Redundancy is Your Friend

> Uniform small core architecture enables redundancy to address yield at very low cost

> Design includes redundant cores and redundant fabric links

> Redundant cores replace defective cores

> Extra links reconnect fabric to restore logical 2D mesh

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