[htrp]

This looks like a customized ASIC specializing solely in recommendation systems possibly focused on ads ranking

>We found that GPUs were not always optimal for running Meta’s specific recommendation workloads at the levels of efficiency required at our scale. Our solution to this challenge was to design a family of recommendation-specific Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) ASICs.

[flangola7]

What a tragic waste of human effort and potential.

[throwuwu]

Same thing was said about GPUs when they were just for games

[flangola7]

I don't remember that. Games are art and offer at least some benefit to the world. Optimizing Facebook attention algorithms harms society.

[throwuwu]

You must be Gen Z because the prevailing attitude towards video games of all kinds was mostly negative in the 20th century. They even tried to blame Doom for school shootings.

[flangola7]

I was born in 89. I'm talking about GPUs specifically, not just video games.

[fortyseven]

That, but the exact opposite. Games were the primary motivation for GPUs in desktop computers in the 90s.

[nikhilsimha]

I hope they take comfort in the fact that this is open-source.