SanDisk held an Investor Day presentation earlier this week. Ordinarily, that would be considered par for the course. However, then some of the presentation slides - laden with supposed inaccuracies and key omissions - started doing the rounds on the social media, leading to a backlash from the tech-savvy community. SanDisk fixes HBM capacity per GPU at 192GB, replete with a chronically understated bandwidth of 12.8 TB/s, and omits any pointers on HBF's write endurance An AI model basically consists of a series of transformer blocks that are made up of two key elements: Currently, both the model weights and […]

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