Behind Bad Apple on Trainium: a chip performance team's side product
daniel_c0deb0t · x · 2026-09-05
The author notes they work on a team deeply focused on understanding chips to maximize performance, and some of that work enabled the precise drawing via instructions running on the chip—the kernel that "executes" Bad Apple frame by frame on the Trainium NeuronCore, with a real instruction/DMA profiling trace.
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