It should go without saying that custom designed chips are going to outperform the more general purpose chips at the task if everything else is equal. We've se

It should go without saying that custom designed chips are going to outperform the more general purpose chips at the task if everything else is equal. We've seen that with cryptocurrency mining. CPU -> GPU -> ASIC. And many other examples. Aren't AI GPUs already to a great extent custom designed for AI? Is it even a GPU if it's not used for graphics? What's left on the table in terms of designing an ASIC that specifically targets a single AI task? Having nicer tools to design and simulate ASICs is cool. I'm guessing that if you work at a higher level you might want to drop in to the lowest levels to extract maximum performance.