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.
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by Adi Fuchs and David Wentzlaff on Feb 4, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Moore's Law, Specialization
Background These are exciting and challenging times for computer architects. The looming end of Moore’s law and the breakdown of Dennard scaling force everybody to put on their thinking caps and envision what future processors will look like when transistors...
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