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fxtentacle超过 3 年前

"The Future of Hardware Is Software" ... says everyone that wants to sell you AI software on commoditized hardware.Yet here I am, I recently won an AI competition by reviving an old 2005 algorithm and just using the fact that compute power has 7000x-ed since then (from 5 GFLOPS on a P4 to 35 TFLOPS on a 3090). No AI was needed.And now I'm building custom electronics for a new type of 3D camera because even after years of AI and deep learning research, structured light and/or stereoscopic 3D depth estimation is still unusable. Try training a NERF from "only" 3 UHD images and you know what I mean.

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aidenn0超过 3 年前

> A classic example is Itanium: it is only a historical footnote today, but Itanium’s explicit parallelism and focus on scalability once made it look like the future of CPUs. The problem was never the hardware itself—it was difficult compilation and backward compatibility with the x86 software ecosystem that doomed Itanium.The problem with the Itanium was the hardware itself. Finding sufficient ILP on general purpose loads for a VLIW like Itanium is an unsolved problem in compiler design. Saying the problem with Itanium was software would be like entering a drag-racer in formula 1 and saying the problem was that the drivers weren't good enough at steering.

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msandford超过 3 年前

And the future of software is hardware. Which way is the pendulum swinging now? From which perspective? Why?If you've been around for a swing or two this is nothing new. If not, it's earth shattering.Anyone remember thick clients, then thin clients, and now thick clients again? Anyone want to guess when mobile-first starts becoming web-first?

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karmakaze超过 3 年前

I don't buy this inevitable future where the best software runs on the best hardware because that's obviously optimal. How many times has history played out that way vs large entities entrenched in their moat of hw, sw, or a mix?I mean what's the closest that we have to a good example, maybe ARM hardware running Linux? What about mobile, we have Android Open Source Project which is a bit early to see what it will amount to. I still hope and wait, but wouldn't bet on it.

tw04超过 3 年前

Ahh, yes, back to 2010 when everyone told companies like Hitachi they were doing storage wrong by relying on custom ASICs.Meanwhile Google and Facebook and Amazon are making hardware offload engines because they've figured out there's a limit to the performance of general purpose CPUs and it's a lot of wasted power.You can't have it both ways, efficiency and speed or flexibility, choose one.

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mikesabbagh超过 3 年前

You remember the modular phone where you can replace parts and not replace everything when you want to update your phone? This hardware failure tells you that you need to use the latest hardware to run the latest software.

dusted超过 3 年前

Nah, the future of software is hardware.

synergy20超过 3 年前

It already is, every hw/chip designer is pretty much a software engineer coding in verilog(c-like), all testbench/verification is also pure software, designer normally uses powerful CAD software daily, the hardware part for many designers are minimal.the true hardware is those who design the boards (PCB), which, before COVID, was mostly outsourced to China, I'm unsure if this "hardware" will ever move back.