General Purpose Compute
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Goldberg: Computing is swinging back from general-purpose to specialized chips
“I mean, it's a pendulum, and we've swung very, very far to general purpose compute, and now we're swinging back towards more specific purpose type chips.”
Goldberg: Tailoring custom ASICs to software stacks yields superior performance gains
“Chips exist to run software, and if you control your software stack, building a chip that's tailor-made, a special purpose chip, we'll call them ASIC, tailor-made for that software stack, you can get performance gains over general purpose compute, like a sort …”