LLM motherboard design is really a timing and power-delivery problem
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-07-21
A reply about why LLM hardware is expensive: the hard part is getting signals to arrive intact at the right time, plus power delivery. It also asks whether designing an “LLM motherboard” with lots of RAM, M.2, and GPU slots is actually complicated, framing the problem as a hardware engineering challenge rather than just slot count.
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