Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m...
by belval on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:58PM
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> Well, I can look back about a decade for the last 10-fold increase.
A decade ago (2011) we didn't even have "deep learning" with the real increase starting around 2013 when GPUs became good enough that things like AlexNet/ImageNet were practical so that's one.
> You misread the question pretty badly. They asked for new use cases, not things that would benefit.
I answered their question pretty directly, and I address your point in my reply as well. 10-fold increase in computing power brought us affordable smartphones (in 2011 iPhones existed but were mostly for the well-fortunated among us).
10-fold increase in processing power brought us the video streaming services of today. Without modern processing capabilities Netflix and co. probably wouldn't exist in any capacity. A 100Gpbs network interface just wasn't a thing in 2011 and it's not because engineers didn't have the idea.
A new Pixel 6 can erase people from my pictures automatically on-device, that's another very nice use case that wasn't possible with the hardware of even five years ago.
If you want to argue that a 10 years horizon wasn't large enough then sure, but there are literally thousands of use cases that only exist because computing scales and gets cheaper every year.
A decade ago (2011) we didn't even have "deep learning" with the real increase starting around 2013 when GPUs became good enough that things like AlexNet/ImageNet were practical so that's one.
> You misread the question pretty badly. They asked for new use cases, not things that would benefit.
I answered their question pretty directly, and I address your point in my reply as well. 10-fold increase in computing power brought us affordable smartphones (in 2011 iPhones existed but were mostly for the well-fortunated among us).
10-fold increase in processing power brought us the video streaming services of today. Without modern processing capabilities Netflix and co. probably wouldn't exist in any capacity. A 100Gpbs network interface just wasn't a thing in 2011 and it's not because engineers didn't have the idea.
A new Pixel 6 can erase people from my pictures automatically on-device, that's another very nice use case that wasn't possible with the hardware of even five years ago.
If you want to argue that a 10 years horizon wasn't large enough then sure, but there are literally thousands of use cases that only exist because computing scales and gets cheaper every year.