Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs

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CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

much of it details technical reasons why digital is much much better than analog for intelligent systems

For current LLMs there would be a massive gain in energy efficiency if analogue computing was used. Much of the current energy costs come from stimulating what effectively analogue processing on digital hardware. There’s a lot lost in the conversation, or “emulation” of analogue.

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