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Speaking about buying TPUs, yesterday I vaguely remembered that the company that sells mining ASICs like the Antminer was planning to start selling AI chips ala
by farresito 9y ago
Speaking about buying TPUs, yesterday I vaguely remembered that the company that sells mining ASICs like the Antminer was planning to start selling AI chips ala Google's TPU. I checked their website and they have actually started selling them already https://www.sophon.ai/ https://www.sophon.ai/
I think it's pretty exciting seeing how we are getting increasingly more specific chips for AI tasks. I wonder what their performance is like compared to GPUs.
- DiThi 9y ago> SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER Is this because in China you're expected to ignore all certificate warnings? > I wonder what their performance is like compared to GPUs. Me too. I tried to find a similar table and found this: https://github.com/tobigithub/tensorflow-deep-learning/wiki/tf-benchmarks#alexnet https://github.com/tobigithub/tensorflow-deep-learning/wiki/... 25 ms/batch of 128 is 5120 images/second... Is that correct? Am I missing something?
- farresito 9y ago> SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER I can access it no problem with Chrome. The price seems to be 589$ per chip. Google wrote an article some time ago about the their TPUs. There are a few charts at the end of the page: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/an-in-depth-look-at-googles-first-tensor-processing-unit-tpu https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/an-in-depth-l... I would be quite interested in a comparison between Google's TPUs and this Sophon chip, but it seems it's quite new and they have barely started selling them, so we might have to wait. > 25 ms/batch of 128 is 5120 images/second... Is that correct? Am I missing something? I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this, so you will have to wait for someone experienced to chime in.