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Re:The Looming Battle Over AI Chips by BooneJS on Saturday April 21, 2018 @11:23AM (#16891741)
Pretty soft article. General purpose processors no longer have the performance or energy efficiency that’s possible at scale. Further, if you have a choice to control your own destiny, why wouldn’t you choose to?
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Re:The Looming Battle Over AI Chips by jacksmith21006 on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:48AM (#16902906)
Great post. It is like mining going to ASICs. We have hit limits and you now have to do your own silicon.

A perfect example is the Google new speech synthesis. Doing 16k samples a second through a NN is not going to be possible without your own silicon.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...

Listen to the samples. Then think the joules required to do it this way versus the old way and trying to create a price competitive product with the improved results.

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