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by mlsu 807 days ago
Certainly an interesting looking chip. It looks like it's for recommendation workloads. Are those workloads very specific, or is there a possibility to run more general inference (image, language, etc) on this accelerator?

And, they mention a compiler in PyTorch, is that open sourced? I really liked the Google Coral chips -- they are perfect little chips for running image recognition and bounding box tasks. But since the compiler is closed source it's impossible to extend them for anything else beyond what Google had in mind for them when they came out in 2018, and they are completely tied to Tensorflow, with a very risky software support story going forward (it's a google product after all).

Is it the same story for this chip?