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Comment by SJC_Hacker

4 months ago

The downside of a dedicated ASIC, besides the fixed size of the multipliers, which isn't that big of a deal because matrix multiplication can be broken down into blocks anyway, is the precision(16-bit, 8-bit) and data format (floating point vs. integer/fixed) are immutable

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