I am on one hand impressed watching what an org like Google can do with its vast resources, but on the other hand deeply concerned. Computing is moving to a pla

I am on one hand impressed watching what an org like Google can do with its vast resources, but on the other hand deeply concerned. Computing is moving to a place where this deep specialization will be a requirement to set foot in the door in many areas. The technical achievement is of course cool, but nothing unprecedented or unexpected for an org like Google. Almost natural: when ASIC implementation cost < new general purpose resources do the obvious thing. This also happens for obvious reasons with commodity crypto accelerator chips, phone music codec chips, etc, etc. It just means at Google's scale the dollar savings are huge. The cool thing is Intel and chip makers can level the playing field but they are so far behind.