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Mar 4Liked by Babbage

Thank you for the excellent read 💡 ! Would love to understand better the differences between GPUs and TPUs, I don't know if such comparison is in scope of future articles :). Looking forward to part 2!

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Thank you so much and glad you enjoyed. Hopefully some of the differences will become a little clearer after part 2. In fact I'll try to make sure to draw out some of the differences in that post.

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So fascinating and exciting! Thank you Babbage!

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Thanks so much Graeme!

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Absolutely fantastic research and writing! 🤩

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Hi Nick! Thanks so much - really appreciate that.

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Feb 25Liked by Babbage

Amazing history and insight

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Thank you so much!

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Really fascinating read. Thanks

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Thanks so much Paul!

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Mar 24·edited Mar 24Liked by Babbage

In 2013 Google would have been working with LSI Corp, acquired by Avago in 2014 and founding the custom design division which is the core of their AI success today. The acquisition of Broadcom by Avago in 2015 would bring in the network switch and SOC expertise., retaining the Broadcom name. Together these form the broad chip design and product capabilities of the current Broadcom.

Google was long silent about who their partners were so by the time it became known, the partner was Broadcom. But the logical original partner would have been LSI Corp.

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Hi! You're absolutely right. Thanks for much for pointing that out. I'll add a correction / note.

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Mar 24Liked by Babbage

I was not correcting so much as hoping to add insight why Broadcom partners in this kind of business. LSI Corp has been very successful as a quiet business unit.

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Brilliant writing. Just brilliant.

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Thanks so much Feisal!

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