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You kind of summed it up right there...'it's just an arithmetic logic unit for tensors'...whether its a matrix multiply engine or implmenting sha256 still a cus
by ai2323 8y ago
You kind of summed it up right there...'it's just an arithmetic logic unit for tensors'...whether its a matrix multiply engine or implmenting sha256 still a custom rapidly iterated chip for narrow very specific use case. Google accomplishment here clearly the software, but doubt they only ones going to crack asic systolic arrays. At some point china inc figures this out in mass...maybe bitmain themselves.
- Maybestring 8y agoWell... I'll concede that 2-instructions that aren't reading or writing memory is a pretty narrow set of operations. But it's also much more generally useful than computing one specific hash function.
- ai2323 8y agoCompletely agree with you there. Guess the analogy I was making was more about the evolutionary speed we saw there. Google seems to be moving awful fast here.
- wmf 8y agoBitmain already announced TPUs (cue "they'll only sell them after they're finished training Skynet").
- sanxiyn 8y agoFYI, here is Bitmain's AI product homepage: https://www.sophon.ai/ https://www.sophon.ai/ They shipped Deep Learning Accelerating Card SC1 at $589. You can't buy it right now because it is sold out.
- sannee 8y agoFaster matrix multiplication is something which has application in practically every engineering field there is.