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Well its true about the TPU's, but you can find similar A72 based servers from other vendors if you try hard enough... https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hisilicon/h
by StillBored 8y ago
Well its true about the TPU's, but you can find similar A72 based servers from other vendors if you try hard enough...
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hisilicon/hi16xx/hi1616 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hisilicon/hi16xx/hi1616
The ThunderX2 based machines aren't A72's but a probably easier to source and are basically in the same conceptual ballpark.
- nl 8y agoSure, they are Arm cores, but who knows what else they have on them. Arm has a bunch of extensions[1][2] which would be really useful on these in some circumstances. And that is ignoring the "custom silicon" that Amazon claims to have. [1] https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/machine-learning/arm-ml-processor https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/machine-learning... [2] https://www.androidauthority.com/arm-project-trillium-842770/ https://www.androidauthority.com/arm-project-trillium-842770...