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		wtallis on Nov 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kepler, Nvidia's Strong Start on 28 nm > There are is a new wave of silicon companies that use photonics, in memory compute, deterministic/fogs data flow, etc Those innovations are really cool sounding and make for great press releases, but are much less amenable to third-party benchmarking and analysis on account of those "innovations" largely still being stuck in the lab and small-scale proof of concept products, whereas Nvidia's GPUs are mass-market products that actually ship.

frozenport on Nov 26, 2023 [–]

So they ship because they aren't innovative?

Google TPU for example has been shipped.

wtallis on Nov 27, 2023 | [–]

> So they ship because they aren't innovative?

Ok, you're clearly not trying to make sense here.

And there's no way you can believe that Google's TPUs have shipped as broadly as Nvidia's GPUs (or even just Nvidia's datacenter GPUs).

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