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The silicon would be to save money compared to general purpose compute. The savings should overcome any fixed cost. Doubt it's having that great an impact to R&
by bushbaba 4y ago
The silicon would be to save money compared to general purpose compute. The savings should overcome any fixed cost. Doubt it's having that great an impact to R&D cost growth.
- dekhn 4y agothat was one of the reasons for TPUs- they are far cheaper (TCO) than large numbers of GPUs if you're doing massive amounts of training.