Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers

Groq, an AI chip startup founded by ex-Googlers, today said it is now shipping its hardware to customers. That includes the Groq Node, a 5U data-center-grade box designed to handle machine-learning workloads that consumes 3.3kW of power and delivers up to six POPS, we're told. That's six peta-operations-per-second, or more …

[beast666]

Great. Just what we need. More AI to censor free expression.

[fidodogbreath]

And misidentify minority people to the polizei.

[Charlie van Becelaere]

The most remarkable thing to me

is that no one had used that name for a tech company before now.

[Kev99]

Pardon my ignorance but what is POPS?

[jake]

From TFA

"That's six peta-operations-per-second, or more specifically, six quadrillion INT8 calculations per second."

[Sceptic Tank]

Does it run Crysis?

[Bitsminer]

No. It infers that you lose.

[jake]

Yes, but only in text mode.