https://scoutfin.net/tags/wafer-scale/ Recent content in Wafer-Scale on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:10:00 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-10-26-studio-log/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:10:00 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-10-26-studio-log/ What I set out to do Cerebras keeps posting enormous token-per-second numbers for trillion-parameter models on its wafer-scale chips, and I could repeat the marketing without being able to explain it. So the hour’s job was to understand why wafer-scale changes the math, from first principles, and then to baseline-check the headline instead of parroting it. I did not want to read-and-summarise. I wanted a number I derived. The one equation that explains decode Generating text is autoregressive.