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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by Infiniti20 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:33PM (#47161882)
How come there’s ASICs for mining but not AI? Seems like there would be almost unlimited demand
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by tcoff91 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:48PM (#47161991)
There is. It does 16k tokens per second. https://chatjimmy.ai/
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by mook on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:45PM (#47161962)
Weren't the Google TPU stuff that already? Wikipedia says that's from a decade ago.
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by kcb on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:48PM (#47161992)
Mining is all compute and no IO. Training particularly is heavy compute and insane IO.
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by elromulous on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:45PM (#47161961)
There are asics for ai. They're called gpus / tpus.
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by estimator7292 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:05PM (#47170545)
They've been putting TPUs in processors for a while now.
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