Kind of a weird article, as 8-bit quantization is widely used in production for neural networks for a number of years now. The title of the article is a bit misleading since it's widely known that 8-bit quantization does work and is extremely effective at improving inference throughput and latency. I'm not 100% sure if I'm reading the article correctly since it's a bit oblique, but it seems like the news here is that work is being done to formally specify a cross-vendor FP8 standard, as what exists right now is de facto standards from different vendors.