Among AI infrastructure hopefuls, Qualcomm has become an unlikely ally

With its newly formed partnership with Arm server processor designer Ampere Computing, Qualcomm is slowly establishing itself as AI infrastructure startups' best friend. Announced during Ampere's annual strategy and roadmap update on Thursday, the duo promised a 2U machine that includes eight Qualcomm AI 100 Ultra accelerators …

[b0llchit]

The enemy of my enemy is my best friend

The enemy of my enemy is yet another party that will screw you immediately or shortly thereafter.

FTFY

[VicMortimer]

Well crud. I was hoping they'd developed a way to shut down "AI". They're just building more of the garbage.

[pip25]

"By combining MX6 and speculative decoding, Qualcomm claims these technologies can achieve a fourfold improvement in throughput over a FP16 baseline."

Considering quantization from 16 to 6 bits reduces the model to a bit over third of the original, this doesn't sound all that amazing to me.

[Gene Cash]

> The enemy of my enemy is my best friend

Maxim 29 of The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries:

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

Don't ascribe positive feelings to your enemy that aren't there. Qualcomm is still a sue-happy proprietary bag of assholes with the aim of extracting as much money from everyone in the room as possible. Much like Oracle.