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Re:What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Dri... by 6pac3rings on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:33AM (#26285892)
Does anyone have insight on what implications follow from Jim Keller's Tenstorrent graph processing chip? He speculates the future may have a $5 add-on chip to a child's toy which will have more intelligence than a human on #162 Lex Fridman Podcast. I get how the single threaded raster pixel gpu architecture is less evolved than a graph processor.
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Re:What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Dri... by sitkack on Saturday February 27, 2021 @06:47PM (#26289264)
I saw that, his comment was more around what the future could look like in 20-30 years. I don't think he was talking about their next product. Think Sturgeon and PKD vantage points and timelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_data_graph_execution

And now I have fallen back down the Epiphany [1] rabbit hole. The main thing that graph processors get you is being able to avoid the von Neumann Bottleneck [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

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Re:What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Dri... by 6pac3rings on Friday March 05, 2021 @08:06AM (#26356401)
On the "intellectual bottleneck", perhaps we will see exponential improvement in the next 10 years now that aesthetes in the political realm see the value in a TSMC.

The EU has a draft paper out for 2030.

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