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Re:Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs by onlyrealcuzzo on Sunday March 10, 2024 @10:44AM (#39659541)
Will graphics cards eventually get renamed?

Are the optimizations for inference basically identical to graphics?

I imagine the workloads are different, and that inference has been the main market for years now...

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Re:Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs by yencabulator on Sunday March 10, 2024 @12:26PM (#39660383)
The new things are already getting renamed, but the dust hasn't settled yet.

NPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_accelerator

TPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit

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Re:Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs by adgjlsfhk1 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @04:58PM (#39662469)
why bother renaming? just re-acronym to "greatly parallel unit"
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