sc94597 on 02 January 2026
| HoloDust said: I think GPUs will be hot shit for AI...until they are not anymore, just like it was for cryptos, when ASICs took over. |
We already have ASICs in the form of TPUs and other NPUs. Most companies (the behemoth that is Google excepted) don't invest in them, despite their efficiency gains, because they don't want to be stuck with hardware they can't use if the architecture-requirements shift, which is far less arbitrary than crypto-mining and can happen very unpredictably. GPUs are less efficient but less risky investments. There is also the software-hardware ecosystem inertia.
