Hardware Podcasts

Get Ready For Season 4 of Moore's Lobby

Moore's Lobby · 1 Mar 2022 · 2m

What this episode covers

Host Daniel Bogdanoff introduces Season 4 of Moore's Lobby, previewing episodes with Jonathan Ross of Grok and Hugo Swartz of Qualcomm. Ross explains how Grok's chip architecture achieves peta-op performance by combining CPU speed with GPU throughput on older technology. Swartz discusses Qualcomm's evolution from modem and audio components to a comprehensive compute platform integrating CPU, GPU, DSPs, and camera processors for XR and metaverse applications.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

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Companies
Grok, Qualcomm
Chips
CPU, GPU, DSP

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