The focus on AI hardware has been speed and power efficiency. One of those tools is quantization - using fewer bits and doing more calculations. It usually comes at a cost - accuracy. Accuracy is important in AI. In order to get the best of both, NVIDIA has integrated microscaling - fixed offsets for small FP4 batches of numbers. Here's an explainer!

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