Everyone's fighting over data center GPUs. Meanwhile the AI chips that actually ship in volume go into phones, cameras, sensors and…
About SN108 ChipForge
Taτsu@TatsuEcosystemEveryone's fighting over data center GPUs. Meanwhile the AI chips that actually ship in volume go into phones, cameras, sensors and wearables. That's the market ChipForge is aiming at: an open NPU, built in public, proven on MLPerf Tiny. Live Oct 16, 9 AM EST. Go build.
Quoting @ChipForge
The ChipForge NPU Challenge goes live tomorrow, October 6, at 9 AM EST AI is no longer limited to the data center. Intelligence is moving into everyday devices: the phones, cameras, sensors and wearables around us. This is edge AI, and it runs on a small, efficient chip called an NPU (neural processing unit). Until now, designing one has taken large teams and large budgets. ChipForge opens this work to everyone. The challenge: design an AI accelerator chip and the software that runs it. How every design is judged: - It runs real AI models from MLPerf Tiny, the industry-standard benchmark for edge AI chips, covering voice, vision and sensor tasks. - Every result is checked bit for bit against the official reference. Only exact answers count. - Performance and chip area are measured with professional chip design tools. Miners compete to build the fastest and most efficient design. Validators run the same open evaluator, so every result can be reproduced. The best designs are rewarded
SN108 ChipForge at a glance
SN108, ChipForge (α token モ), is one of the independent markets on the Bittensor network, each with its own α token and its own price. Its α currently trades at 0.011956 τ (≈ $3.28), against 836.24 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 224.47% APR (simple) and 843.39% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.000000 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #9,111,253.
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