Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.

Double precision floating point computation (aka FP64) is what keeps modern aircraft in the sky, rockets going up, vaccines effective, and, yes, nuclear weapons operational. But rather than building dedicated chips that process this essential data type in hardware, Nvidia is leaning on emulation to increase performance for HPC and scientific computing applications, an area where AMD has had the lead in recent generations....