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Are there any TensorFlow-tuned ASICs like Google's TPU available or planned for general release? https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/10/10/microsoft-google-ai-sho
by DocSavage 10y ago
Are there any TensorFlow-tuned ASICs like Google's TPU available or planned for general release?
https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/10/10/microsoft-google-ai-showdown.aspx https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/10/10/microsoft-google-ai-s...
If the deep learning architecture stabilizes for a problem with sufficient market demand, seems like ASICs could be economical.
- etrautmann 10y agoTrueNorth from Paul Merolla and co. at IBM, and Nervana Systems (now Intel) both have hardware optimized for neural networks
- p1esk 10y agoTrueNorth was built to run spiking neural networks, which have little to do with deep learning (even though they managed to get it to run a small convolutional NN), and Nervana has never actually built any hardware.
- hedgehog 10y agoYes, there are at least a dozen companies with specialized hardware accelerators in some stage of development. For smaller parts some of the existing DSP companies like CEVA and Cadence Tensilica are also are adapting their architectures for deep neural net workloads.
- p1esk 10y agoYet it's still not clear if building a custom chip makes sense, because the next Nvidia chip might make it obsolete. Or the one after the next (still too soon).