A New Computing Power Option for Video Generation: How SmarCo GC3 Overcomes the Hard Barrier of the "Storage Wall
# A new choice for video generation computing power: How SmarCo GC3 bypasses the “storage wall” ## Key events Video generation is becoming the most typical application in the era of scarce computing power. However, traditional GPU architectures struggle to meet this demand due to the “storage wall” bottleneck. The SmarCo GC3 chip developed by Zhongke Tongliang achieves deep integration of computing and storage through its dataflow architecture design, providing a new computing solution for video generation scenarios. ## Storage wall: A structural bottleneck in traditional architectures Video generation tasks have distinct characteristics: they involve massive tensor operations, temporal modeling, multi-frame dependencies, and long-sequence context understanding. On GPUs based on the von Neumann architecture, these operations follow the control flow logic of “instruction fetch - decoding - execution - write back”, resulting in: - Repeated transfer of parameters and intermediate feature maps between the video memory and the computing core - High-frequency exchanges of approximately 250 million pixels per second for 4K videos between the chip and the video memory - The transfer overhead and latency consume most of the energy, leading to low actual computing efficiency This “transfer - compute - transfer” cycle mode makes computing…