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WHY HARDWARE SPECIALIZATION IS BACK

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Slower transistor scaling, memory bottlenecks, and power limits are renewing the case for specialized AI inference hardware. Matching different inference phases to different accelerators can improve performance per watt while adding deployment and software complexity and leaving room for GPUs to absorb successful ideas.