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Comment by aaa_aaa 16 hours ago

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Interesting that in the article, they do not say what the chip actually does. Not even once.

Symmetry 16 hours ago

A bunch of 128x128 systolic arrays at its heart. More details:

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/amazons-ai-self-suffic...

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trebligdivad 11 hours ago

Nice article; I hate to think what the DC bus bars look like! ~50v at ~25kW/rack; 500A bus bars - I guess split, but still!

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wmf 16 hours ago

Training. It's in the name.

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cobolcomesback 14 hours ago

Ironically these chips are being targeted at inference as well (the AWS CEO acknowledged the difficulties in naming things during the announcement).

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- delaminator 12 hours ago
  
  Perhaps they should do their training on their Inferentia chips and see how that works out?
  
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- wmf 14 hours ago
  
  The same thing happened to AMD and Gaudi. They couldn't get training to work so they pivoted to inference.
  
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djmips 12 hours ago

The I stands for Inference then?

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Kye 16 hours ago

Vector math

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egorfine 16 hours ago

Probably because the only task this chip has to perform is to please shareholders hence there is no need to explain anything to us peasant developers.

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caminante 16 hours ago

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