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Will the GPU go the way of the soundcard, and we will all purchase an "LPU"? Language Processing Unit for AIs to run fast? I remember there was a brief window
by sergiotapia 2y ago
Will the GPU go the way of the soundcard, and we will all purchase an "LPU"? Language Processing Unit for AIs to run fast?
I remember there was a brief window where some gamers bought a Physx card for high fidelity physics in games. Ultimately they rolled that tech in to the CPUs themselves right?
- 0x1ceb00da 2y agoThe graphics stuff in modern gpus is just a software layer on top of a generic processing unit. The name is a misnomer.
- jsheard 2y agoPartially true, a significant chunk of modern GPUs are really just very wide general purpose processors, but they do still have fixed-function silicon specifically for graphics and probably will for the foreseeable future. Intel tried to lean into doing as much as possible in general purpose compute with their Larrabee GPU project but even that still had fixed-function texture units... and the concept was ultimately a failure which hasn't been revisited.