Cern Basher
@CernBasher · Nov 9, 2025
Tesla's FSD chips: Integer vs. Floating-point
At Tesla's shareholder meeting Elon said that, "integer operations are fundamentally more efficient than floating-point operations...integer is much more power efficient, much more silicon efficient, but you actually have to train
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
As the number of bits drops, the difference between floating point and integer decreases until they are the same thing at 1 bit.
“Floating point” is not real. It is emulated with 2 integers and a lot of complexity.
08:27 PM · November 9, 2025 · 397K views
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