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Wtf come on I was joking https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803128
by smcl 4y ago
Wtf come on I was joking https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803128
- garbagecoder 4y agowell, really that's basically the only place left to go at the moment. I don't think we're likely to have 10GHz any time soon or 1,024 cores either. Specialized circuits are probably all that's left before we start hitting asymptotes.
- divbzero 4y agoDedicated hardware for common algorithms is actually not very far fetched. In addition to GPUs, we already have examples of HSMs [1] and TPUs [2] that optimize for specific cryptographic and machine learning operations. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit
- orangeoxidation 4y agoThere's video de- and encoding as well.
- formerly_proven 4y agoIntel has dedicated gzip hardware in QAT among a few other hardware blocks.
- contravariant 4y agoPretty sure the internet exists by virtue of algorithm specialized hardware.
- erk__ 4y agoWell it does already exist https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=works-integrated-accelerator-z-sort https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=works-integrated...