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Definitely should be teaching more history. I recall that neural nets were pretty popular in the late 80s into the mid 90s. I recall a local startup that was wo
by UncleOxidant 6y ago
Definitely should be teaching more history. I recall that neural nets were pretty popular in the late 80s into the mid 90s. I recall a local startup that was working on a specialized neural net chip back in the early 90s, but they couldn't keep up with performance/price improvements from Intel & AMD and folded after a few years. Now there must be dozens of companies doing specialized architectures for neural nets.
- brianobush 6y agoIt is much cheaper nowadays to make ASICs, which I think partially explains the expounding growth in NN chips.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoNot sure I completely agree. I was in the ASIC biz back in the early 90s. I knew about the NN company I described above because they were a customer. Looking at NRE costs now vs then it doesn't seem all that different (considering inflation). (Sure, they can do a lot more gates now than back then)