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It's not that China has not been trying to develop these kinds of HPC technologies for several decades and will begin to now in response to these latest round o
by throwawaylinux 4y ago
It's not that China has not been trying to develop these kinds of HPC technologies for several decades and will begin to now in response to these latest round of embargos. And they have produced things. They just aren't competitive.
- sanxiyn 4y agoAccording to whom? I know people who sing praise of Huawei Ascend, as the best AI inference chip currently in the market. https://www.hiascend.com/en/ https://www.hiascend.com/en/
- throwawaylinux 4y agoAccording to their failures in markets where they compete with other products. I don't know about this chip. Possibly this time it'll be different, unlike all the previous times it would be different but wasn't. I don't think that's been established yet though. And certainly it's not for CPU cores or even more general purpose GPUs.
- sanxiyn 4y agoYou don't know about Huawei Ascend, which launched in 2019 (see https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2019/8/huawei-ascend-910-most-powerful-ai-processor https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2019/8/huawei-ascend-910-most...), and now after 3 years everyone (at least here in East Asia) trying to actually deploy AI inference at least heard about, as one of the best solution in the market, and still are commenting on AI accelerators and "their failures in markets where they compete with other products", okay. Go on being clueless. It's already here. What the fuck are you talking about, "I don't think that's been established yet". That would have made sense in 2019, not in 2022.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoSwearing and getting angry at the situation isn't going to change things for you.