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> People have only just started working on making dedicated AI chips If you mean chips that do fast matrix-matrix multiplications, that definitely has a long h
by stabbles 2y ago
> People have only just started working on making dedicated AI chips
If you mean chips that do fast matrix-matrix multiplications, that definitely has a long history and was not "just started".
If you mean calculations in low precision, that's also already a decade old if not more.
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- bhouston 2y ago> If you mean calculations in low precision, that's also already a decade old if not more. More like since the history of computing. 1990s era graphics cards made use of FP16 formats and before that people did fixed point math approximations because FP hardware was so slow.