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This is something that has been tried, basically constructing an analog matrix multiply/dot product and it gives reasonable power efficiency at into levels of precision. More precision and the analog accuracy leads to dramatic power efficiey losses (each bit is about 2x the power), so int8 is probably the sweet spot. The main issues are it is pretty inflexible and costly to design vs a digital int8 mac array, and hard to port to newer nodes, etc


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