THE EMERGING ROLE OF SRAM-CENTRIC CHIPS IN AI INFERENCE

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SRAM-centric chips, like those from Cerebras and Groq, are gaining traction due to their advantages in AI inference workloads, particularly in minimizing latency and increasing throughput compared to traditional GPUs. This shift is driven by the demand for near-compute memory architectures, which offer faster data access than far-compute approaches like DRAM. The trade-off lies in balancing memory bandwidth and compute capacity, leading to new disaggregated hardware strategies that optimize both prefill and decode phases of AI tasks across varied hardware platforms.