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cheptsov | 10 months ago

I think it’s not misleading, but rather very clear that there are problems. v7 is compared to v5e. Also, notice that it’s not compared to competitors, and the price isn’t mentioned. Finally, I think the much bigger issue with TPU is the software and developer experience. Without improvements there, there’s close to zero chance that anyone besides a few companies will use TPU. It’s barely viable if the trend continues.

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mupuff1234|10 months ago

> besides a few companies will use TPU. It’s barely viable if the trend continues

That doesn't matter much of those few companies are the biggest companies. Even with Nvidia majority of the revenue is being generated by a handful of hyperscalers.

sebzim4500|10 months ago

>Without improvements there, there’s close to zero chance that anyone besides a few companies will use TPU. It’s barely viable if the trend continues.

I wonder whether Google sees this as a problem. In a way it just means more AI compute capacity for Google.

latchkey|10 months ago

The reference to El Capitan, is a competitor.

cheptsov|10 months ago

Are you suggesting NVIDIA is not a competitor?