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interesting, FPGA was used to speed up bitcoin mining, outdating the use of GPU - now it is coming to neural networks.
by nirai 11y ago
interesting, FPGA was used to speed up bitcoin mining, outdating the use of GPU - now it is coming to neural networks.
- afsina 11y agoI think main advantage here is not the speed but power consumption and ease of deployment (small form factor etc.). Also as mentioned in the article, they can do a lot of customization there. Such as custom design floating point units, lookup tables for sigmoid calculations etc.
- reilly3000 11y agoImagine 3-D printable hardware that is able to adapt to functional needs like a lisp machine.