AI Chip Architectures
At the 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture, John Hennessy and David Patterson delivered their Turing Lecture: "A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture".
In the 1980s, when Hennessy and Patterson did their Turing Award-winning research, single-threaded CPU performance grew 52% a year. By 2018, with the end of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling, the rate was 3%.
There was a need for domain-specific architectures (DSAs). Their worked example was Google's TPU v1, already in product...
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