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I agree with your points but the game has changed. It’s not AMD vs Intel It’s AMD vs INTEL vs Apple vs Amazon (and nvidia might be next.
by zitterbewegung 6y ago
I agree with your points but the game has changed.
It’s not AMD vs Intel
It’s AMD vs INTEL vs Apple vs Amazon (and nvidia might be next.
- andromeduck 6y agoGoogle also makes TPUs, which competes with GPUs and Nvidia, in addition to making ARM SOCs, is one of the key stakeholders behind Power PC now.
- justicezyx 6y agoNo, you cannot buy TPUs. You can only buy their usage hours from GCP.
- tsuraan 6y agohttps://cloud.google.com/edge-tpu/ https://cloud.google.com/edge-tpu/ has a "Buy" button that leads to https://coral.ai/products/ https://coral.ai/products/ . They appear to be available for purchase? edit: reading more on the edge-tpu page, they definitely appear to be of limited use compared with the ones available to google's hosted plans.
- justicezyx 6y agoEdge TPU is not TPU in GCP.
- ballenf 6y agoI wonder whether the Apple silicon will also feel like "buying usage" or if we'll have low-level enough access to feel like we own it. I don't think having physical possession of the thing is always the best criteria for whether you really own it.
- andromeduck 6y agoAnd your point is what exactly?
- jagger27 6y agoAnd Nuvia, Qualcomm, Huawei and whoever else decides to get TSMC to make some killer Arm-based SoCs. Seems like the playing field is about to get a lot bigger.
- dharma1 6y agoWell it won't be Huawei