Can't afford a high-powered graphics card? This DIY engineer made his own GPU out of 8,192 RISC-V chips
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A 160-core ‘GPU’ stitched from 8,192 RISC-V microcontrollers is a reminder that compute scarcity is spawning architectural experimentation at every layer. For infra teams, the long-term risk is fragmentation — more exotic accelerators and bespoke clusters to support, even if most never reach production scale.
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