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To: combjelly who wrote (1571358)	11/11/2025 5:48:18 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572505

CJ, As to the emulation with two integers, well in the sense that *the exponent and the mantissa can be considered integers*, he is right. Yes, but that's like saying pi can be represented by two "integers": 3 and 14159. Everything in digital design is represented by bits. The exponent and the mantissa are both bit vectors and make up the two parts of a floating point number, but they should not be considered integers, because an integer is a singular number, not a part of a number. Anyway, it should be interesting to see how well Tesla's integer-based AI accelerator performs and how much they have to reinvent the wheel. I don't anticipate any increase in efficiency or performance because whether the tensors are represented and operated on using fixed-point or floating-point math, the amount of bit-crunching remains the same. If they can streamline a large part of the computational pipeline with less precision, more power to them. Tenchusatsu