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Ugh. 7 trillion dollars for AI chips? Honestly that sounds divorced from reality. Why? Because it is absurdly easy to make a memory starved AI chip with too muc
by imtringued 3y ago
Ugh. 7 trillion dollars for AI chips? Honestly that sounds divorced from reality. Why? Because it is absurdly easy to make a memory starved AI chip with too much TFLOPS.
What innovation are they going to bring to the market? 3D XPoint combined with AI engine chiplets for petabyte scale AI models? That wouldn't cost more than a hundred billion.
- kurthr 3y agoThe problem is raising a huge amount of money, and this is the solution, which is something Sam is very good at. The utility seems purely financial.
- weebull 3y ago$7T is more than all of TSMCs revenue ever. Last year was $69B. That was their second biggest year, and they haven't existed for 100 years yet.
- sloxser 3y agoIt is obviously a nonsense number for headlines IMO. The entire Abu Dhabi Investment Authority sovereign wealth fund isn't even 1 trillion. 7 belt and road initiatives? The simple explanation is that our media is mind numbing trash that has little to do with reality other than we wouldn't be talking about this if it wasn't for the fake 7 trillion dollar number.