Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost

Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by belval on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @01:54PM (#38280752)

Why? Inferentia => inference, trainium => training. Given the usually naming of AWS product, having one where the name roughly matches what it does is pretty good?

TPU is pretty good but is associated with Google. MTIA is an acronym but still maps to what the chip does. ~~"Cobalt" is worse as it does not mean anything~~ . Cobalt is the CPU chip, MAIA is the accelerator so this matches Meta's naming.

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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by ShamelessC on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:50PM (#38282280)

> Why? Inferentia => inference, trainium => training.

Funny, that's precisely why I think the names are bad. It's like if Google had chosen "Search-ola" as their name. Way too on the nose and/or lazy. Having said that, I don't really care all that much and I imagine that may have been the spirit of those who chose the names.

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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by mdaniel on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:10PM (#38282536)

heh, as someone who has to deal with this nonsense all day <https://aws.amazon.com/products/> I would for sure welcome some straightforward naming. $(echo "AWS Fargate" | sed s/Fargate/ServerlessContainerium/)

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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by organsnyder on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @05:39PM (#38283614)

My previous role was a lot of AWS, and I became convinced that the value of an AWS cert was mostly learning how to map all of the product names to their actual functions.

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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by ClimaxGravely on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:45PM (#38299684)

Hahaha, it might not have worked but I would love to use a search engine called Search-ola

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