The evolving future of processors

We’ve been racing to keep pace with Moore’s Law for decades. GPUs have become our daily workhorse for visualization and aspects of compute. We’re close to adding FPGAs and quantum computing to that mix. This is the era of processors. Hardware is important again. The story of the last twenty years has been that everything is software; as long as standard CPUs and DSPs were able to step up and deliver the performance, programmable solutions ruled. Now, with the arrival of machine learning and, especially, deep neural networks, this dominance has evaporated, no longer is everything ‘just another workload.’ Under