Stephen Downes

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This article is more complex than it needs to be, but in a nutshell, it's this: because the development of computer chips is reaching the limits of physics, we can't make them faster and cheaper any more, so to continue to improve companies are developing specialized 'domain-specific' computing architectures.

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