Lots of companies are doing ASICs for machine learning. Off the top of my head, Graphcore, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Wave. This site claims there are 187 of them (which seems unlikely) https://tracxn.com/d/trending-themes/Startups-in-AI-Processo.... Google's TPU counts and there are periodic rumours about amazon and meta building their own (might be reality now, I haven't been watching closely).
As far as I can tell that gamble isn't work out particularly well for any of the startups but that might be money drying up before they've hit commercial viability. I know the hardware is pretty good for Graphcore, Cerebras and the software proving difficult.
As far as I can tell that gamble isn't work out particularly well for any of the startups but that might be money drying up before they've hit commercial viability. I know the hardware is pretty good for Graphcore, Cerebras and the software proving difficult.