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And it is, in a way. At least to me.

Would you rather have a burnt on silicon algorithm for video/encryption decoding or a 10X faster general purpose CPU that can do that and everything else?



I think you underestimate just how much faster and more energy efficient hardware acceleration can make certain tasks, the savings can be far in excess of 10x.


You may underestimate the exponential function :)

We where doubling our performance every year or two. For decades.


That doubling applies to any sillicon circuit, not just CPUs.


Of course it does, and your point is?


We were also watching 160x240 video clips.




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