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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.

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/)
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.
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