What George Hotz thinks about semiconductors

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American programmer and hacker, founder of the self-driving company Comma.ai and of the tiny corp, which builds the tinygrad neural network framework.

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1. 29 Jun 2023

   Our readingAnyone who cannot write a full software stack for NVIDIA's generic GPUs has no chance of writing one for their own, more specialised, AI chip.

   Their wordsIt’s always harder to write software for more specialized hardware. A GPU is pretty generic. If you can’t write an in Nvidia stack, there’s no way you can write a stack for your chip. My approach with Tinygrad is first write a performant NVIDIA stack.

   ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 7th of 30 in this recording