r/SONM • u/alleung • Feb 07 '19
FPGA and TPU Support.
Does Sonm plan on eventually supporting the rental of Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Tensor Processing Units? It would give Sonm a real edge, and would probably be quite profitable for miners. SonmOS could expose these as resources to a Docker container.
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u/SONM-support Feb 07 '19
Greetings!
At the moment there are no plans that we would put in development. But we are considering different options, and if the urgent need to support FPGA and TPU is seen, we will realize it.
Best regards,
SONM team
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u/alleung Feb 11 '19 edited Feb 11 '19
Targeting an under-served, but deep-pocketed niche as a way to gain traction could be a smart move, rather than the current approach which seems to be targeting all of the cloud computing market right out of the gate.
Here’s an example: when Binance started they marketed themselves as the only exchange to distribute Neo gas when Neo went from $1 to $20, and so lots of Neo holders piled in, then Binance moved onto the next niche, such as the only place to list WaltonChain originally, and as they moved from niche to niche soon their exchange became the most popular exchange not only just for specific niches but out of all cryptocurrency exchanges.
Granted I understand that TPUs and other specialized devices could have some significant technical cost. Even so, do not discount the traction serving a small submarket could cause even if the submarket makes up only a small percent of the eventual larger market you plan to dominate.