Prince: Prioritizing raw performance over power efficiency is a losing chip strategy
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discusses edge infrastructure hardware, comparing current GPU architecture decisions to historic Intel CPU strategy.
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“We've seen this game before with Intel saying, oh, that doesn't matter. Like just get the most performance possible. You can water cool things, all kinds of things. That, that tends to not be the winning strategy over the long term, and so we do think that there will be a renewed focus on just energy efficiency around GPUs”
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