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Pretty soft article. General purpose processors no longer have the performance or energy efficiency that’s possible at scale. Further, if you have a choice to c

• jacksmith21006 8y ago
  Great post. It is like mining going to ASICs. We have hit limits and you now have to do your own silicon. A perfect example is the Google new speech synthesis. Doing 16k samples a second through a NN is not going to be possible without your own silicon. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Cloud-Text-to-Speech-powered-by-Deepmind-WaveNet-technology.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo... Listen to the samples. Then think the joules required to do it this way versus the old way and trying to create a price competitive product with the improved results.