> If you can create one platform service that developers love and runs on cheaper specialized hardware, you'll be able to destroy your competitors and signal an

> If you can create one platform service that developers love and runs on cheaper specialized hardware, you'll be able to destroy your competitors and signal an alternative hardware arms race. I think this was what Google is trying with their TPU for running TensorFlow for machine learning applications. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercharges-machine-learning-tasks-with-custom-chip.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercha...