Yeah, I don't want to pretend this is a totally new idea. There's not a lot of totally new ideas. But there was a lot of things tried in the 1960s and 1970s wh

Yeah, I don't want to pretend this is a totally new idea. There's not a lot of totally new ideas. But there was a lot of things tried in the 1960s and 1970s whose only fault was that they were simply too early. For example, people were researching neural nets back then. They basically got nowhere. In hindsight, they never could have, simply because it was too soon and the requisite power wasn't there yet. A phone is more heterogenous today than I think even supercomputers were in the 1990s, and the trend is only increasing diversity, with neural processors on the near horizon and quantum on the far horizon (as it seems quantum processors are far more likely to end up functioning as a sort of fancy "accelerator card" than their own CPUs). & honestly even CPUs are almost viewable as their C subset and their vector processing subset, and even "within" the same CPU the two don't always cross particularly gracefully.