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Apoorva Sharma's avatar

This was not just informative but so well written. You're an inspiration.

Question: Nvidia is generations ahead of the startups. You commented on the path to AI on the edge- what will be the evolution of compute intensive, parallel processing training?

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Eric Flaningam's avatar

Thanks Apoorva! I think we're seeing the evolution of that training from Nvidia right now: systems-level designs at the data center level, building larger and denser data centers, and then looking for ways to optimize costs and power consumption. Energy continues to be a bottleneck, and there's no one solution to solve it (see previous article on energy). Finally, customers will continue to pay for leading-edge performance for the foreseeable future.

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Stewart's avatar

Seems like the big winner in lots of different scenarios is Taiwan Semiconductor. The risk, of course, is military action by China.

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Eric Flaningam's avatar

Well said, incredible company. Likely a future deep dive on here.

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Leslie Oosten's avatar

Superb article, thank you...

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Eric Flaningam's avatar

Thanks Leslie!

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ReAssembler's avatar

Interesting article, i liked the deep dive into the details. It relates to an article I released few weeks ago about an overview of the semiconductor industry: https://reassembler.substack.com/p/inside-the-chip-wars-power-profit-fight-over-the-new-oil

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