> Why It Matters: Designed as an AI-centric system from its inception
Announcement was in 2015. I'm curious whether Argonne are pleased with it.
All I'll say is that you can probably guess how they feel about it given the context.
Intel, AMD, and Nvidia were all vendors on Exascale projects [0]
> Intel is dog shit
Intel has issues with execution, but their engineers are still top notch. They are the last American company to actually do semiconductor fabrication, and only fell behind TSMC and Samsung in fabrication only 6-7 years ago because they didn't choose to invest in EUV lithography instead of other methods.
[0] - http://helper.ipam.ucla.edu/publications/nmetut/nmetut_19423...
With all of the taxpayer money they've wasted so far, they could've bought zillions of Cerebras WSE-3 and exceeded 10 exaflops.