Raja Koduri, a GPU veteran who has designed graphics processors for AMD, Apple, ATI, S3 Graphics, and Intel, believes that GPUs will not be replaced by custom-built silicon for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) any time soon. However, new architectures can still be designed on the heels of GPUs to better address these workloads, he believes. In fact, the custom silicon endeavors of AWS, Graphcore, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla probably prove his point about architectures.
"We have heard this statement since 2016, but GPUs still rule," Raja Koduri in response to an X post about the future of AI compute. "Why? I am still learning, but my observations so far: the 'purpose' of purpose-built silicon is not stable. AI is not as static as some people imagined and trivialize [like] 'it is just a bunch of matrix multiplies'."
