On: Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026)

[pyrolistical]

Can’t wait for single chip asic qwen3.8 27b

It’s small so should be cheap per chip. And it so much smarter than it ought to be for its size.

Problem is asic take forever to cut and are always months behind the latest open weight sota

[dlcarrier → pyrolistical]

Taalas uses a design that requires masked ROM layers specific to a model, but Etched uses a newer design with a specialized RAM that supports any transformer model.