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Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s

104 points • by peter_d_sherman • yesterday at 7:55 PM • 44 comments • view on HN

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tokepi • yesterday at 8:49 PM

If the specs seem outdated, it’s because this chip launched in 2024. It’s available at cloud providers including Cirrascale

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thway15269037 • yesterday at 9:00 PM

What's the price?

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pearl_panel5 • yesterday at 8:29 PM

Curious how the memory bandwidth actually holds up under sustained inference loads compared to the spec sheet numbers.

swiftcoder • yesterday at 9:16 PM

So it's an M4 Max Mac Studio, RAM-wise, with a GPU's worth of compute?

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zitterbewegung • yesterday at 8:47 PM

Sort of interesting design It has half a terabyte of SRAM on the accelerator with a 128 GB of RAM replacing HBM with SRAM but keeping regular RAM.

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0917236141 • yesterday at 11:11 PM

Seems like a reasonable general-purpose card.

aetherspawn • yesterday at 8:41 PM

Ok so it’s significantly worse than Apple M6 and we don’t know if it’s cheaper or not

Edit: Ah sorry you’re right, the bandwidth is lower but the TOPS is a lot higher. I’m not sure how much effect you get from higher TOPS with such low bandwidth though.

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varispeed • yesterday at 8:31 PM

Aren't these specs already outdated? Seems meh. I would think players would like to bring something new to the table instead of bringing what was okay two years ago or so.

Give me 1TB RAM and 5TB/s or something that exciting.

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