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Re:The Looming Battle Over AI Chips by osteele on Saturday April 21, 2018 @01:16PM (#16892261)
Google’s gen2 TPU was announced May 2017, and available in beta February 2018. That 2018.02 date is probably the appropriate comparison to Volta’s 2017.12 and Zen’s 2017 dates.

EDIT: I’m trying to draw a comparison between the availability dates (and where the companies are now), not the start of production (and their development velocity). Including the announcement date was probably a red herring.

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Re:The Looming Battle Over AI Chips by Nokinside on Saturday April 21, 2018 @01:32PM (#16892320)
I'm aware.

Making a chip and making competitive chip are two different things.

When Nvidia enters the market with specialized chip it's likely on completely another level in bandwidth, energy consumption and price per flop performance. They have so much more experience with this.

* https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk...

* https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/04/10/ai-drives-rise-acce...

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Re:The Looming Battle Over AI Chips by brandmeyer on Saturday April 21, 2018 @02:24PM (#16892579)
Announcing it to the world != start of design effort.
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