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Just a guess, but they project the cost of large scale GPU manufacturing to decline faster than ASIC due to the shared applications of gaming/VR?
by kitcar 11y ago
Just a guess, but they project the cost of large scale GPU manufacturing to decline faster than ASIC due to the shared applications of gaming/VR?
- blackguardx 11y agoYou would think AI would be bigger than VR. Edit: going with GPUs makes sense now, but it doesn't indicate a big bet on Facebook's part. I don't think opensourcing a server cabinet is that interesting, but I'm a hardware engineer. In 10 years I think more people will touch AI than VR but I don't know how that translates to investment.
- unchocked 11y agoGaming is a proven market. Capital hates risk. (Real capital, not the fringe type we talk about here.)
- argonaut 11y agoAI might be bigger than VR, but the timeframes are messed up. VR is an engineering problem now; I don't think there are major field-shattering breakthroughs needed to make reasonably realistic, cheap VR within the next 5 years. AI is nowhere close to strong AI or reasonable general-purpose intelligent programs that don't require loads of human tuning. It will take several breakthroughs.