More details about vega (MI25 ) 25TFLOPS

[William Gaatjes]

More news about vega (Radeon Instinct) from computerbase.de

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-12/amd-vega-details/

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[Ajay]

For FP16 flops. Not FP32, FWIW.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Of course. If it was 25tflops and 32bit it would have been disclosed by AMD way earlier.

 

[Ajay]

Well, yes, because it would have kicked NV's butt!

 

[William Gaatjes]

It would be fun to see (underdog) AMD pull a huge rabbit out the hat, but huge jumps are not going to happen anymore until whole new physics and materials are used.
Nvidia , Samsung, Micron, Hynix, Intel, Apple , ARM, Imagine Technologies and AMD , to name just a few of many are really on the bleeding edge of technology and physics.

When they can control carbon in a similar way as they can do silicon at a cost level that is similar, we will see new jumps.
Of course, there are exotic materials like gallium nitride but they all have something negative, mainly the cost of production.
But progress is made.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/02/move-over-silicon-gallium-nitride-chips-are-taking-over/