Re:Ultra Fast Bert
by algo_trader on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:27AM
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Axelera [1] or Halio [2] give you 100-200tflop for ~$200.
8-bit ops, inference only, low memory embedded, excluding the host, implied utilization from FPS specs is ~20%
But the trend is there.
There are also newer ADAS/AV units from China which claim 1000tflops and cant really cost more than $1000/$2000 per car.
These are all tiled designed (see also dojo/tesla) heavily over-weighed on flops vs memory
You can't get flops on a Hailo-8, they're fixed-point only. As much as these specialised inference chips are cool, we're a long way from just being able to drop them in where a GPU was. Not to mention the memory is hugely constrained. The Hailo chips I've worked with were all limited to 20MiB for the weights which is a squeeze even at 4-bit.
I'm really interested, can you share where you got these numbers?