Clearly, Pezy can stand toe-to-toe with Nvidia GPUs on flops per watt at high precision and offer more flexible programming for non-AI workloads. Admittedly, the tensor cores in GPUs can crank through twice as much floating point work at FP64 and FP32 precision and also offer much lower precision for AI training (FP8) and inference (FP4).
But the Japanese government can keep Pezy Computing as a hedge and keep a skillset in designing math accelerators in the country by funding this effort. And we think this is exactly why there will be a Pezy-SC5s and even follow-ons. Because you never know when you won’t be able to get a GPU because demand is too high or exports are restricted.
So the answer is because the US is trying to monopolize the compute market and can not be trusted as an ally any longer, so they keep funding their home-grown tech, even if the performance isn’t there yet, because they may not have another choice soon.
Europe needs to wake up and do the same.
Europe needs to wake up and do the same.
The lack of urgency and a lack of willingness to make bold and risky moves is a severe limiting factor.
We did the same with Putin’s gas, we never learn.
Even though the Baltic nations and Poland (I am just counting EU members) warned Germany (among other countries) that they are being naive and have a fundamental misunderstanding of russian culture and mentality.
And then Merkel went to reward the russians with Nord Stream 2 after the invaded Crimea (not to mention the 2008 invasion of Georgia).
