Comments on: Nervana CEO on Intel Acquisition, Future Technology Outlook

By: OranjeeGeneral

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:17:23 +0000

In reply to jimmy.

Well nVidia has to bring that power consumption waaaaaaaaaay down before they ever become a serious contender compared to DSP, FPGAs that go straight into the end application hardware.

In the data center we will see they might have a lead now but that can change quickly. All hyper scalers are seriously on the move for alternatives and again here it is their power consumption which probably mainly the problem.

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By: jimmy

Sat, 13 Aug 2016 10:43:51 +0000

In reply to OranjeeGeneral.

At this Point Nvidia is totally dominatiing the market. They have more powerful Products than any intel offering by a factor 3-4x for low precision training (21 TFLOPS FP16).

Meanwhile the inferencing hardware is able to achieve 44 TOPS, compare that to the Xeon Phi which peaks at 6 TOPS.

And this new hardware from Nervana is 3 quarters away and is totally unproven.

It must suck when the facts slap you in the face like this 🙂

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By: OranjeeGeneral

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:43:25 +0000

Well nVidia will be feeling the heat and might be out of it pretty soon. I hope they do not focus solely on TensorFlow though I prefer non-company-dominated open platforms like Torch or Caffe instead of a google controlled software architecture.

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