I don't know if there's good justification for this yet. The claim that computers are shifting from general (CPU) chips to more specialized (GPU) chips. I'm no

I don't know if there's good justification for this yet. The claim that computers are shifting from general (CPU) chips to more specialized (GPU) chips. I'm not sure classifying GPU as "specialized" is right- it's essentially a chip that can do lots of small computations, rather than big ones like the CPU does. To me, the trend looks more like a shift from centralized to distributed models of computing. Which I think is also backed up by data processing tools like spark which distribute over multiple computers. I saw a "SQL process unit" announced recently[1] which I guess really is a move towards specialized compute. I haven't heard of much uptake in it yet though, so I guess time will tell. [1] https://www.neuroblade.com/product/ https://www.neuroblade.com/product/