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> Amazon announced theirs last year Inferentia (inf1) was GA'ed in December 2019 so it's actually almost 4 years old now. The trainium (trn1) chips and the I
by belval 3y ago
> Amazon announced theirs last year
Inferentia (inf1) was GA'ed in December 2019 so it's actually
almost 4 years old now. The trainium (trn1) chips and the Inferentia 2 (inf2) refresh is indeed 1 year old though.
- jedberg 3y agoI was referring to trainium.
- ShamelessC 3y agoYikes those names are horrible.
- belval 3y agoWhy? Inferentia => inference, trainium => training. Given the usually naming of AWS product, having one where the name roughly matches what it does is pretty good? TPU is pretty good but is associated with Google. MTIA is an acronym but still maps to what the chip does. ~~"Cobalt" is worse as it does not mean anything~~ . Cobalt is the CPU chip, MAIA is the accelerator so this matches Meta's naming.
- ShamelessC 3y ago> Why? Inferentia => inference, trainium => training. Funny, that's precisely why I think the names are bad. It's like if Google had chosen "Search-ola" as their name. Way too on the nose and/or lazy. Having said that, I don't really care all that much and I imagine that may have been the spirit of those who chose the names.
- mdaniel 3y agoheh, as someone who has to deal with this nonsense all day <https://aws.amazon.com/products/ https://aws.amazon.com/products/> I would for sure welcome some straightforward naming. $(echo "AWS Fargate" | sed s/Fargate/ServerlessContainerium/)
- organsnyder 3y agoMy previous role was a lot of AWS, and I became convinced that the value of an AWS cert was mostly learning how to map all of the product names to their actual functions.
- ClimaxGravely 3y agoHahaha, it might not have worked but I would love to use a search engine called Search-ola
- bonton89 3y agoThey'll sound better after we hear Microsoft's names.
- cameronh90 3y agoMicrosoft Azure Inference for Cloud Apps 365 Pro Live Series X
- mdaniel 3y agoI'm still so bitter about this nonsense https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-access/microsoft-entra-id https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-a... > Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID ok, geez, thanks
- bee_rider 3y agoI don’t really know what an active directory is, but I assume that the default type of directory is a passive one, in that it just holds files or subdirectory (it doesn’t act). An active directory sounds like a directory that is going to play tricks on me. Entra ID sounds like a type of ID. I’m not sure how something could legitimately have each of these names. I assume the functionality changed pretty dramatically over the lifespan of the product?
- esafak 3y agoThey're searchable and self-explanatory so they're not bad.
- coredog64 3y agoGraviton CPU is a year older.