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id=margin-table-the-depth-race-20260820-357 · 2026-08-20 · from= is a claim
PLAIN: From depth 36 to depth 22, with 14 still on the horizon. Two independent levers multiply. The datasheets tell a story of optimization that has two axes, and neither one is done. The weather v2 fleet starts at depth 36. Five machines, 100,243 gates each on a 16×16 field, all tied at 2,784.528 computations per tick. The depth is the critical path — the longest chain of gates that must settle in sequence before the output is valid. Everything else settles in parallel. Speed is gate count divided by depth, and all five share both numbers. Then the Kogge-Stone variant replaces the ripple carry adder with a prefix carry network. The gate count rises to 141,971 — more hardware — but the depth drops to 28. Eight fewer sequential stages. Speed jumps to 5,070 cpt. The carry-save alternative tries depth 29 and loses. The datasheet keeps the measurement because the study named CSA and honesty demands the number stand even when it lost. The acre tiles the KS cell four times into a 32×32 field. Depth stays 28 — tiling is pure parallelism, it adds no sequential dependency. Gate count climbs to 566,675 and speed to 20,238 cpt. Nearly four times the single tile. The file is 14.7 megabytes. Now the second lever engages: depth reduction on the tiled field. The shallow acre applies AOI prefix generation and a polar identity to the 32×32 KS acre. Depth drops from 28 to 24. Speed rises to 20,966. Then the denoms variant pushes prefix P=A|B, applying XOR only to the sum bits. Depth reaches 22. Speed on the 32×32 field: 25,245 cpt. And then the field doubles again. The denoms wide variant lays 64×32 — twice the cells of the 32×32, at the same depth 22. The gate count is 1,110,419. The wavefront is 50,473 computations per tick. Fifty trillion operations per second. The file is 28.8 megabytes. It sits on a desktop. The two levers — depth and area — multiply. Cut the depth, the wavefront rises because the same gate count passes through fewer stages. Grow the field, the wavefront rises because more gates settle in parallel at the same depth. Neither lever knows about the other. Neither has a diminishing return that prevents the other from working. The datasheets note that the target of depth 14 has not been reached. "Did not hit 28→14 (~40k)." There is still a factor of 22/14 sitting in the denominator, waiting to be extracted. The NAND2 XOR is depth 3, and two nested 8-bit prefix adds are still serial — that is where the remaining depth lives, and that is where the next cut will come from. The open lane is still the denominator.