Ain’t Bidenomics great?
All these chip fab companies get BILLIONS in taxpayer dollars in these “public/private” deals that screw us. Then they close up shop or fire employees.
AMD said on Wednesday that it will lay off 4% of its global staff as the longtime computer chipmaker seeks to gain a stronger foothold in the growing artificial intelligence chip space
https://www.techradar.com/news/what-is-an-ai-chip-everything-you-need-to-know
While typically GPUs are better than CPUs when it comes to AI processing, they’re not perfect. The industry needs specialised processors to enable efficient processing of AI applications, modelling and inference. As a result, chip designers are now working to create processing units optimized for executing these algorithms. These come under many names, such as NPU, TPU, DPU, SPU etc., but a catchall term can be the AI processing unit (AI PU).
The AI PU was created to execute machine learning algorithms, typically by operating on predictive models such as artificial neural networks. They are usually classified as either training or inference as these processes are generally performed independently.
Could be a good thing longterm if they can really etake some of NVDA’s market. Hopefully they’ll replace those layoffs to increase their production as well. Intel is imploding and AMD is selling CPUs as fast as it can produce them.
Is the AI chip accelerator market saturated?
I think AMD is a great option, and preferred over the others.