the_panopticon·vor 9 Monaten·discussI think the subsequent level is 'Distinguished Engineer.' That's terminal AFAIK. Maybe they'll need a 'Sr DE' someday?
the_panopticon·vor 9 Monaten·discussThis is great to see. Google has role-modeled open source hardware/silicon with efforts like https://opentitan.org/ and https://developers.google.com/silicon in the past, too. I wonder how this AI Coral NPU IP will differ from Nvidia's NVDLA https://nvdla.org/ effort with the ecosystem?
the_panopticon·vor 9 Monaten·discuss"History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes" - Mark Twain https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/mylifebits/
the_panopticon·vor 10 Monaten·discussVery interesting. It sounds like tuning at the PTX level can increase workload efficiencies, such as quote "Specifically, we employ customized PTX (Parallel Thread Execution) instructions" from the DeepSeek folks https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437.