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It will be interesting to see if this is a custom SOC in the sense they took some off the shelf IP, or if they are creating a new microarchitecture. A SOC base
by jlawer 5y ago
It will be interesting to see if this is a custom SOC in the sense they took some off the shelf IP, or if they are creating a new microarchitecture.
A SOC based on existing IP is a solid investment, but nothing like the scale of investment required for a new microarchitecture.
- ahazred8ta 5y ago"Named "Yitian 710", the processor was built on a 5nm process and boasts 128 Arm v9 cores" https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/19/alibaba_yitian_710_arm_server_cpu https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/19/alibaba_yitian_710_ar...
- rektide 5y agoalmost amusing how mainstream media cant figure out a single technically interesting or useful thing to say about this event. thanks for finding something useful to relay about this effort.
- samaman 5y agoThanks, how does this compare for matrix multiplication and logistical regression to other machine learning specific cores though, like a GPU or one of those Google Tensor Cores? These Alibaba chips don't seem like they'd do very well at those tasks, but are just great all purpose CPUs