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How do the new “TPUs” and “NPUs” slot into your perspective of GPUs? Just nomenclature catching up to describe matrix math, ML GPUs without video output?
by drBonkers 3y ago
How do the new “TPUs” and “NPUs” slot into your perspective of GPUs? Just nomenclature catching up to describe matrix math, ML GPUs without video output?
- mike_hearn 3y agoTPU is a Google thing. It shows how far NVIDIA has gone from classical GPUs that Google made ML specific silicon and it's not a clear winner over NVIDIA chips (or in some cases is a clear loser, from what I understand). I don't know about NPUs. Do you mean Apple? Apple silicon is interesting because of the unified memory architecture, but beyond letting you save RAM by using it for both graphics and app code simultaneously I'm not sure it has much benefit. Certainly, datacenters will remain on NVIDIA for the time being unless AMD manage to catch up on their software stack. Intel is the dark horse here. I hear rumblings that their first offering is actually quite good.