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Isn't this simple economics? The R&D cost is amortized over a larger market. You can always try to build specialized chips but the market might not be nearly
by melling 10y ago
Isn't this simple economics? The R&D cost is amortized over a larger market. You can always try to build specialized chips but the market might not be nearly as big so there's a lot less money. The general purpose market still moves faster.
- ucaetano 10y agoGiven that the market is big enough for a single player to develop a chip for internal usage, minimum efficient scale is probably not an issue. I'd guess NVidia sells far more cards than Google will produce TPUs.