Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028
The Next Platform, Monday, August 26th, 2024
Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. And if there is one person who is not worried about how we are going to increase the oomph of those engines by two orders of magnitude in the next six years, it is Andy Bechtolsheim.
Well, Bechtolsheim doesn't seem to be terribly worried at least. That was the impression we got from his keynote address at the Hot Interconnects 2024 conference in Silicon Valley recently, where one of the luminaries of the systems and networking businesses wondered out loud if I/O could keep up with compute for XPU designs for AI acceleration through the end of the decade. And then Bechtolsheim grabbed us all by the ears and literally ran through 38 slides in 21 minutes, making the case that we, the semiconductor industry, got this.