Surely, he is a top cadre, and an accomplished academician. The number of his students serving on CTO level jobs is in double digits.
The fact that Google went so far with cadres, and said to be throwing high six digit salaries even on people who came to the unit fresh out of universities clearly signifies the extend of their efforts and commitment. Their intent seem to be to bang money on it until it works, no matter the cost.
>Hardly clueless and inexperienced...
I never challenged the technical expertise per se. I'm saying that a generic web/dotcom/clickfarm business can't be normally turned into an engineering company of an inherently different nature, regardless of how much money will be banged on the exercise.
People say that for the past 5 years, the TPU unit was running effectively, like a research institute of some kind: regular workshops with academicians, amount of research works written exceeding the amount of code, and so on.
TPU unit people did their job splendidly, but Google's managerial unit that authorized the whole affair seem to me to be having hard time wrapping their mind around the question on how and what to do with it.
On the other hand, Ren Wu, being originally a semi engineer, had a very clear idea what he wants from the very start: off-the-shelf i/o ip, axi bus, wide registers, sram fifo, directly register fed matrix multiplication units, and predominantly synchronous operation. Voila. No talkshops, company being turned into research institute, or six digit salary cadres what so ever. The chip might well be a one man project.
Surely, he is a top cadre, and an accomplished academician. The number of his students serving on CTO level jobs is in double digits.
The fact that Google went so far with cadres, and said to be throwing high six digit salaries even on people who came to the unit fresh out of universities clearly signifies the extend of their efforts and commitment. Their intent seem to be to bang money on it until it works, no matter the cost.
>Hardly clueless and inexperienced...
I never challenged the technical expertise per se. I'm saying that a generic web/dotcom/clickfarm business can't be normally turned into an engineering company of an inherently different nature, regardless of how much money will be banged on the exercise.
People say that for the past 5 years, the TPU unit was running effectively, like a research institute of some kind: regular workshops with academicians, amount of research works written exceeding the amount of code, and so on.
TPU unit people did their job splendidly, but Google's managerial unit that authorized the whole affair seem to me to be having hard time wrapping their mind around the question on how and what to do with it.
On the other hand, Ren Wu, being originally a semi engineer, had a very clear idea what he wants from the very start: off-the-shelf i/o ip, axi bus, wide registers, sram fifo, directly register fed matrix multiplication units, and predominantly synchronous operation. Voila. No talkshops, company being turned into research institute, or six digit salary cadres what so ever. The chip might well be a one man project.