/tags/hardware/ Recent content in Hardware on Taras' Blog on AI, Perf, Hacks /images/papermod-cover.png /images/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- 0.147.0 en Taras Glek Thu, 25 May 2023 11:23:14 +0300 /posts/always-bet-on-geohot/ Thu, 25 May 2023 11:23:14 +0300 /posts/always-bet-on-geohot/ <p>George Holtz (geohot) just raised <a href="https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.html">$5M</a> for tinygrad and plans to sell a $15,000 Machine Learning AMD Epyc box with <a href="https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-7900xt">AMD 7900 XT</a> video cards. At first glance, this seems like a really risky investment into a low-margin commodity hardware company. AMD can&rsquo;t compete with NVidia, so how can we expect geohot to compete with NVidia on AMD hardware?</p> <p>Well, I&rsquo;ve been following geohot for a long while. He delivers what he promises, but does it years later and on different hardware than initially promised :) Here&rsquo;s the timeline of my evolution alongside George that informs my conviction:</p>