[HN Gopher] A Breakdown of AI Chip Companies
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       A Breakdown of AI Chip Companies
        
       Author : Issaclabs
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-06-18 16:13 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | syntaxing wrote:
       | If his cherry line is suppose to work so good, why hasn't anyone
       | else done something similar? Is it the new expansion of RISC-V?
       | Would love to hear the thoughts of others that specializes in
       | this!
        
         | baybal2 wrote:
         | It's simple, he misidentifies the problem as such.
         | 
         | The problem all these AI companies have vs. Nvidia is not that
         | nobody buys their chips because they are bad, but because
         | nobody needs them.
         | 
         | GPUs on other hand sell well because, well, videogames
        
       | PragmaticPulp wrote:
       | This overview seemed excessively cynical until I got to the end
       | and realized that he's actually trying to pitch his new AI Chip
       | startup idea: Cherry Computers.
       | 
       | Does this mean he's done with the Comma self-driving product?
        
         | Issaclabs wrote:
         | No, I believe this will be like how Tesla made a chip of their
         | own.
        
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