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Pure speculation, but one possible benefit of dramatically reducing the on-chip power requirements would be allowing larger areas of the chip to be active for longer periods of time. Most of the area of a cpu is inactive during execution, or they would melt...

Being able to have stacked silicon neural network operate at peak speed everywhere could be worth the tremendous cooling costs.



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