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AceJohnny2yesterday at 10:53 PM1 replyview on HN

But not 38 TOPS that Apple claims, with the weak explanation of

> Apple’s “38 TOPS INT8” is computed as 19 TFLOPS FP16 × 2, following the industry convention of counting INT8 operations as 2× the FP16 rate. But the hardware doesn’t actually execute INT8 operations twice as fast.

Why would Apple follow that convention when the hardware explicitly doesn't seems like a more straight-faced lie that I expect from Apple


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Shebanatortoday at 12:55 AM

You assume the marketing folks actually talk with the hardware folks. More likely its a big game of telephone....