| ▲ | KeplerBoy 6 hours ago | |
That has never been true, unfortunately. The 2005 top500 was led by bluegene/L achieving 280 FP64 TFlop/s. Apple is talking about 17.5 FP16 TFlop/s on the iphone 17 neural engine. So 20 years later we are still nowhere near, not even at reduced precision. | ||
| ▲ | hedora 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
That’s a factor of 10-20. You can get an SoC that does 126 TOPs (strix halo) in tablet form factor, which is a factor of two. (I’ll count them as equivalent ops, since software couldn’t low precision floating point back then). So, not quite “pocket”, but probably “purse” and certainly backpack. | ||
| ▲ | CooCooCaCha 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Because we’ve been able to spend more and more on the next miniaturization. That does not seem infinitely sustainable or even physically possible to sustain indefinitely. | ||