Comment by mrbungie

1 day ago

It's fun when then you read last Nvidia tweet [1] suggesting that still their tech is better, based on pure vibes as anything in the (Gen)AI-era.

[1] https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/1993364210948936055

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qcnguy  21 hours ago

Not vibes. TPUs have fallen behind or had to be redesigned from scratch many times as neural architectures and workloads evolved, whereas the more general purpose GPUs kept on trucking and building on their prior investments. There's a good reason so much research is done on Nvidia clusters and not TPU clusters. TPU has often turned out to be over-specialized and Nvidia are pointing that out.

  • pests  21 hours ago

    You say that like I d a bad thing. Nvidia architectures keep changing and getting more advanced as well, with specialized tensor operations, different accumulators and caches, etc. I see no issue with progress.

    • oivey  19 hours ago

      That’s missing the point. Things like tensor cores were added in parallel with improvements to existing computer and CUDA kernels from 10 years ago generally run without modification. Hardware architecture may change, but Nvidia has largely avoided changing how you interact with it.

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bigyabai  1 day ago

> based on pure vibes

The tweet gives their justification; CUDA isn't ASIC. Nvidia GPUs were popular for crypto mining, protein folding, and now AI inference too. TPUs are tensor ASICs.

FWIW I'm inclined to agree with Nvidia here. Scaling up a systolic array is impressive but nothing new.