Maybe just maybe deep learning had something to do with the awful prices, apart from the dreaded miners of course.
Just like Google's TPU v2 this thing's goobling up HBM en masse, not unlike big Pascal or Volta, I bet HBM is gonna be in short supply for the next few years
Intel Shipping Nervana Neural Network Processor First Silicon Before Year EndOtherwise for off-die memory, the processor has 32GB of HBM2 (4 8-Hi 1GB stacks) on the shared interposer, resulting in 8 terabits/s of access bandwidth.
Just like Google's TPU v2 this thing's goobling up HBM en masse, not unlike big Pascal or Volta, I bet HBM is gonna be in short supply for the next few years
