9 Aug 2025, 14:30 UTC554 views12 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Hey again, folks :)
Two years have passed since my last attempt to revive this channel. In that time, I left my job in prop trading, spent a year doing the MicroMasters in Finance, and in November β24 joined a skyrocketing (according to Bloomberg) hedge fund. Now weβre driving its HFT strategies to the moon with FPGA platforms and highly optimised software.
The flip side of the coin β Iβm still far, far away from mβ¦
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9 Aug 2025, 14:09 UTC385 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @hn_best_comments
Re: Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
I work at Google on these systems everyday (caveat this is my own words not my employers)). So I simultaneously can tell you that its smart people really thinking about every facet of the problem, and I can't tell you much more than that.
However I can share this written by my colleagues! You'll find great explanations about acceleratoβ¦
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22 May 2023, 19:43 UTCβ1,250 views15 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Hey folks,
That was a long period of silence here, but I'll try to breathe a new life to this channel I'll do my best to post more frequently and not only ML hardware, but also about Zero Knowledge Proof accelerators, some areas on computer architecture, trading infrastructure and HPC
Here is a video for today β what is Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP)
ZKP is a way for proofer to convince a verifier, who has X and Y, β¦
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14 Jan 2022, 08:07 UTCβ1,870 viewsread 6 August 2026 π The Hardware Lottery π°
by Sarah Hooker, Google Brain [ACM]
- The very first computer hardware was extremely focused on solving one particular problem - numerical differentiation or polynomial models. In the 1960s IBM invented the concept of Instruction Set and made migration between hardware easier for software developers. Till the 2010s we have been living in the world of general-purpose hardware - CPUs.
- Compβ¦
27 May 2021, 13:06 UTCβ4,670 viewsread 6 August 2026 Photo
ππΌGoogle finally released TPU v4, it will be avaliable for customers later this year.
π₯΄The previous v3 version was unveiled in 2018 and the v4 is claimed to be twice as fast.
π½TPU v4 combines in a 4096 chips sumercomputer that reaches 1 exaFLOPs (10**18) of performance
Read more on [hpcwire] and watch the video Google I/O β21
22 May 2021, 16:56 UTCβ1,880 viewsread 6 August 2026 π FPGA comes back. Titanium FPGAs from EFINIX are focused on the edge application and promises unbeatable per-Watt performance
βοΈ[pdf] Hardware Accelerator of CNN by Yann Le Cun, father of Deeo Learning revolution
πΊ [youTube] 20min introduction video from Intel about what are the FPGAs and what sort of applications can you use it for
π± [plumerAI] Yet another ML Hardware startup
keeps growing and explains why binβ¦
11 Jan 2021, 16:41 UTCβ1,960 viewsread 6 August 2026 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03063-0.epdf
7 Jan 2021, 12:53 UTCβ1,970 viewsread 6 August 2026 https://www.tenstorrent.com/press/
Tenstorrent, a hardware start-up developing next generation computers, announces the addition of industry veteran Jim Keller as President, CTO, and board member.
5 Jan 2021, 14:29 UTCβ1,900 viewsread 6 August 2026 Graphcore raises $222M at $2.7B valuation
https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2020/12/28/ai-chipmaker-graphcore-raises-222m-at-a-2-77b-valuation-and-puts-an-ipo-in-its-sights/amp/
6 Dec 2020, 18:45 UTCβ2,040 viewsread 6 August 2026 https://newsroom-intel-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/newsroom.intel.com/news/aws-leverages-habana-gaudi-ai-processors/amp/
6 Dec 2020, 18:40 UTCβ1,780 viewsread 6 August 2026 Apple's A14 SoC Under the Microscope: Die Size & Transistor Density Revealed
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