On: Chiplet ASIC supercomputers for LLMs like GPT-4

[btbuildem]

When the LLM wave first burst into public consciousness, I hoped that people would find a way to repurpose all the crypto-mining hardware for this -- alas, a different set of problems.

[woah → btbuildem]

ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit. So by definition, they cannot be repurposed.