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The AI chip startup that could take down Nvidia – Etched's Sohu
- talldayo 2y ago> Etched, a startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, also thinks specialization is the best approach to building AI chips, developing Sohu, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that runs just one type of AI — transformers — very, very well. I thought the cryptocurrency craze taught us that ASICs get annihilated by Nvidia GPUs when benchmarking equivalent-value systems. Guess not.
- saaaaaam 2y agoTake down Nvidia? Yeah. Cuda.
- mdp2021 2y agoThe title refers to replacing Nvidia in server farms where transformer based algorithms are used - which with 20x computational power can make sense (if the rest of the details will be adequate).