I acknowledge Jevon and that demand may increase. But the original point was actually that specialized HW will be outcompeted by newer algorithms on more flexib

I acknowledge Jevon and that demand may increase. But the original point was actually that specialized HW will be outcompeted by newer algorithms on more flexible HW. I have seen this play out several times, for example with brute force Sum of Abs Difference instructions that no video codec uses anymore, because a sparse search is faster than brute force HW. Personal opinion: this will happen again. Why should we focus on how to fill GPU cycles, rather than invent the future of how to do better?