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Re:Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware by _yosefk on Saturday November 10, 2018 @09:34AM (#18421448)
They don't show a comparison to bfloat16 PEs/FMA. IEEE half precision uses a larger mantissa than bfloat16, and the cost of multiplication is proportionate to the square of the mantissa size. I'd expect much lower gains relatively to bfloat16

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