Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi...
by DSingularity on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @07:28AM
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I don’t disagree with what you are saying but I want to point out that the fact that the TPU is not a GPU is not really relevant. In the end what matters most is whether or not it can accelerate PyTorch.
I don't personally think CUDA is impossible to replace - but I do think that everyone capable of replacing CUDA has been ignoring it recently. Nvidia's role as the GPGPU compute people is secure for the foreseeable future. Apple wants to design simpler GPUs, AMD wants to design cheaper GPUs, and Intel wants to pretend like they can compete with AMD. Every stakeholder with the capacity to turn this ship around is pretending like Nvidia doesn't exist and whistling until they go away.