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They're increasingly into ML inference at the edge, which benefits from (and sometime requires) smaller nodes.
by monocasa 6y ago
They're increasingly into ML inference at the edge, which benefits from (and sometime requires) smaller nodes.
- gowld 6y agoYou and I like smaller nodes because they are more cost effective. The military doesn't really worry much about price.
- monocasa 6y agoSort of. At the gate counts we're talking, it doesn't take long until you can't even fit the chip on a whole wafer of an older node. IIRC, an Nvidia GA100 doesn't fit on a 300mm 65nm wafer (to say nothing of being able to clock it at a viable speed even if you were to cut it down). Going off chip destroys perf for a lot of designs too. It's not just a price component, but a performance and viability of new designs one, at a time where the DoD internally is pushing ML hard as a major pillar of investment in weapons technology.