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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean, you're such an absolute know-nothing that it's hilarious. Nice xenophobic bullshit sprinkled in too. Sorry, no university for me, let alone FPGA in university in the 90s. When my friends were in university they were still spending their time learn Java.

The world has changed since 30 years ago

Indeed. And people like me have been there every step of the way. Your ageism is showing.

and the future of integer operations is in reprogrammable chips

Yes, I remember hearing this exact sentiment 30 years ago. Right around the time we were hearing (again) how neural networks were going to take over the world. People like you are a dime a dozen and end up learning their lessons in a painfully humbling experience. Good luck with that, I hope you take it for the lesson it is.

All the benefit of a fab chip

Except the amount of wasted energy, and extreme amount of logic necessary to make it actually work. You know. The very fucking problem everybody's working hard to address.

The very idea that you think all these companies are looking to design and build their own single purpose chips

The very idea that you haven't kept up with the industry and how many companies have developed their own silicon is laugh out loud comedy to me. Hahahaha. TSMC has some news for you.

You’re only describing how ASIC is used in switches

Nope, I actually described how they are used in SoCs, not in switching fabrics.

That’s not how general use computing works in the world anymore, buddy

Except all those Intel processors I mentioned, those ARM chips in your iPhones and Pixels, the ARM processors in your macbooks. You know. Real nobodies in the industry.

It’s never going to be a co-proc in a laptop that can load models and do general inference, or be a useful function for localized NN.

Intel has news for you. It's impressive how in touch you pretend to be in "the industry" but how little you seem to know about actual products being actually sold today.

Hey, quick question. Does nvidia have FPGAs in their GPUs? No? Hmm. Is the H100 just a huge set of FPGA? No? Oh, weird. I wonder why, since you in all your genuis has said that's the way everybody's going. Strange that their entire product roadmap shows zero FPGA on their DPUs, GPUs, or on their soon to arrive SoCs. You should call Jensen, I bet he has so much to learn from a know-it-all like you that has some amazing ideas about US universities. Hey, where is it that all these tech startup CEOs went to university?

Tell you what. Don't bother responding, nothing you've said holds any water or value.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aaand we're back on Reddit again...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They can be a xenophobic, ageist jagoff all they want. I'm not engaging with them anymore. They're the carpenter that thinks a hammer solves all problems, if we pretend they actually did anything with FPGA as their day job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They didn't say anything xenophobic. They may have played into the ageist stuff but it was after you tried to play "I've been doing since you before you were born" card, and that makes it fair game imo. You were being unnecessarily aggressive from the start of this exchange and I think they were matching your energy. This is my outside perspective but you may lash out at me too. I don't have a dog in this fight, I'd have to do research before figuring out if either of you knows what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kinda skipping over everything else he said but 👍

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not really. Not worth responding to the rest.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Uh huh... Bet it's not. Because that would make things difficult.

And the classic down vote for calling out. 😆👍 Hard to shake the Reddit ways.

Have a good one!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's review. They said there was nothing xenophobic. But the original weirdo had some BS to say about american universities. Textbook definition. They said that there was no ageism until I said something, completely ignoring the fact that the original person initially claimed I was younger then them so I had no experience. I responded noting that I've been in the industry quite some time, not as an argument from experience but as a retort to the claim I was new to all of this.

The fact is, the person you're now defending clearly didn't read the thread, and you're just here concern trolling. I provided links to retort the frankly idiotic claims about ASICs not being a far more popular choice than FPGAs, and it's hysterical to see you people coming through worried about the discourse rather than the facts of the matter.

Bye now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Discourse was the fun part. I don't give a shit about what you two are actually talking about lol. Sounds too complicated for me.

I'm not defending anyone. You both were bickering equally toward one another. I'm not on your or their side.

Nice down vote. 👍 Have a good one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Granted, it was a very controlled Reddit argument. It had all the elements, but with a bit of class. 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Social media will always devolve into that. I like seeing arguments personally but when it devolves into name calling and ego stroking it gets annoying real quick

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sure does 😮‍💨 Take care!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Because literally everyone else saw the writing on the wall and is preparing FPGA chips EXCEPT for NVIDIA. 🤦

NVidia is just now trying to make their own ARM chips ffs. 5 years late. You're dated and outmoded. Get with the future.