Indeed, and that's why there are a couple of startups working on new chips and why Google has the TPU. Here's a nice technical talk from Graphcore's CTO about that https://youtu.be/Gh-Tff7DdzU
Was at that talk and it looks very interesting, the team has delivered before.
They just raised more money too - I just wonder how painless the developer experience will be with using their drivers with latest versions of your chosen DL framework, and how price/perf will compare with DL specific tensor processor/GPU hybrids like Volta.
dharma1|8 years ago
They just raised more money too - I just wonder how painless the developer experience will be with using their drivers with latest versions of your chosen DL framework, and how price/perf will compare with DL specific tensor processor/GPU hybrids like Volta.