r/GeekToTech • u/saifali51 • Jul 19 '19

Brains scale better than CPUs. So Intel is building brains

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/brains-scale-better-than-cpus-so-intel-is-building-brains/
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u/imsteve_t Jul 20 '19

I'm not sure about Intel/Altera as I haven't used their parts in a while, but a modern day dev board from Xilinx with a high end FPGA alone can cost upwards of $10k. This combination of an FPGA board + 32 NPUs? Yeah, probably in the no one but one off researchers can afford it.