Chips are not getting cheaper.

Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises::As wafer fab tools are getting more expensive, so do fabs and, ultimately, chips. A new report claims that

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    11 months ago

    If it’s enough to run on-device ai, it’s a win. Imagine autocorrect being able to mangle your texting without ever connecting to the cloud. Huge prvacy win.

    With the goggles coming soon, I think they’ll focus chip improvements on GPU and neural engine to better support that

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Autocorrect doesn’t send anything to the cloud, it’s just a dictionary. If your keyboard is sending your texts to the cloud you have to change your keyboard, not run AI. AI doesn’t do autocorrect, it could maybe do word suggestions but would be super inefficient at it and probably not much better than current methods.

      I’m writing thins on a 22 nm CPU and the letter appear hella fast.