CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
Just as expected.<p>Turning back to nineties, it's easy to see that almost all ventures into specialty hardware ended up with mainstream consumer CPUs catching up, and swallowing the niche in a few years time as computer science, and logic design advanced.<p>Very few computing tasks came out to be truly brute force demanding as people learned how things really work.<p>Multi-channel audio, and sound effects on CPUs — once thought to be impossible, are now everywher, even smartphone chips.<p>Getting there was very tough though. Very few people can write a software DSP, and accoustically correct mixers with real time performance even today.