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Most of the time the hardware accelerators are available for everyone to use, if they program to it. Ex ffmpeg and other media encoding engines all have the ab
by novok 5y ago
Most of the time the hardware accelerators are available for everyone to use, if they program to it. Ex ffmpeg and other media encoding engines all have the ability to write coders / decoders against certain hardware accelerators. You can choose CPU coders, Nvidia specific ones, etc.
- sharikous 5y agoExcept that they locked access to the hardware accelerators via their APIs. The Neural Accelerator is only available through CoreML and even some of the benchmarks show features that are not available to the public (int8)
- vel0city 5y agoSure, that's been the case in the past and maybe that's what JohnBooty meant with his comment, but his comment specifically pointed out a particular browser so I took it to mean CPU extensions targeted for how Safari operates. Like, specific ways Safari handles Javascript or rendering with all of its specific quirks etched into silicon. Other browser manufacturers would have to pretty much behave like Safari or else run as a penalty on legacy instruction sets.