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codedokodelast Wednesday at 5:54 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't know much about GPUs, but is there really any value in IP? I can learn to write HDL code all day long, but turning it into real transistors is the hard part. Code is worth nothing nowadays with AI.


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PunchyHamsterlast Wednesday at 8:53 PM

not IP in particular but APIs. Putting your existing CUDA codebase into new NVIDIA generation that might be noticeably more expensive but is still faster/more energy-efficient than competition.

Competition's software stack have to be good enough that it is worth migrating over and I think till we get some kind of cross vendor API for that it won't happen for a while