And Facebook is taking this even further. And while all these things are very cool, do not let ASIC designers claim they are barriers to entry for GPUs and CPUs

And Facebook is taking this even further. And while all these things are very cool, do not let ASIC designers claim they are barriers to entry for GPUs and CPUs. Whatever variants of this precision potpourri catch on are but a generation away from incarnation in general processors IMO... https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/ https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/