Comment by adastra22
4 hours ago
The fundamentals are different. Bitcoin mining is not intrinsically suited to acceleration on a GPU. It is a not-very-wide serial integer operation.
AI inference on the other hand is basically just very large floating point tensor matrix multiplication. What does an ASIC for matmul look like? A GPU.
Sorta? If that was the full story, TPU would not be a thing.
Asic for matmul is systolic array more or less