
All in on MatMul? Don’t Put All Your Tensors in One Basket!
Matrix multiplication dominates AI hardware and research. Betting everything on MatMul risks an innovation monoculture — it’s time to diversify our compute bets.
by Amir Yazdanbakhsh and Jan Wassenberg on Oct 8, 2025 | Tags: Algorithmic Innovation, Computer Architecture, Computer System, Generality & Programmability, Hardware Lottery, Hardware-Software Co-design, Machine Learning, MatMul, Moore's Law, Opinion, Research Perspective, Transformer
Matrix multiplication dominates AI hardware and research. Betting everything on MatMul risks an innovation monoculture — it’s time to diversify our compute bets.