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Google’s gen2 TPU was announced May 2017, and available in beta February 2018. That 2018.02 date is probably the appropriate comparison to Volta’s 2017.12 and Z
by osteele 8y ago
Google’s gen2 TPU was announced May 2017, and available in beta February 2018. That 2018.02 date is probably the appropriate comparison to Volta’s 2017.12 and Zen’s 2017 dates.
EDIT: I’m trying to draw a comparison between the availability dates (and where the companies are now), not the start of production (and their development velocity). Including the announcement date was probably a red herring.
- Nokinside 8y agoI'm aware. Making a chip and making competitive chip are two different things. When Nvidia enters the market with specialized chip it's likely on completely another level in bandwidth, energy consumption and price per flop performance. They have so much more experience with this. * https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk... * https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/04/10/ai-drives-rise-accelerated-computing-datacenter/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/04/10/ai-drives-rise-acce...
- brandmeyer 8y agoAnnouncing it to the world != start of design effort.