[HN Gopher] Hot Chips 34: AMD's Instinct MI200 Architecture
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       Hot Chips 34: AMD's Instinct MI200 Architecture
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2022-09-18 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | SaltySolomon wrote:
       | I am very thankfull that the sites exists and does those
       | architecture deep dives, ever since Ian and Andre? left anandtech
       | it has lacked in that territory and this site is a good
       | replacement.
        
       | atty wrote:
       | Very cool to see the rundowns like this. As someone in the ML
       | space, I'm a little concerned that they may be ceding the AI
       | accelerator market to Nvidia. The fact it's exposed as two
       | separate GPUs, the focus on fp64, etc, all point to them aiming
       | more at traditional HPC workloads than at AI. To be clear, I
       | don't think that's a terrible move. HPC is a large market, and
       | these cards look like they're going to be great there. My concern
       | is that there is no one really trying to challenge the Nvidia
       | A100/H100+Cuda ecosystem. I'd love to see some better
       | competition, both to bring down prices as well as to spur more
       | innovation.
       | 
       | From what I've seen of Biren's new chip it's nice but won't be
       | competitive with any of Nvidia's chips. Maybe in a few
       | generations it'll be more compelling, and they can build out
       | their software stack. AMD seems to be aiming directly for HPC.
       | Maybe Intel and their OneAPI strategy will get there? I want to
       | root for Intel, but it's hard to have a ton of confidence after
       | watching their performance through the late 2010s.
        
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