Agreed. One of the least efficient things to do with digital logic is floating point multiplication. The second least efficient is probably integer multiply (I'

Agreed. One of the least efficient things to do with digital logic is floating point multiplication. The second least efficient is probably integer multiply (I'm just kidding a bit here). Multiplication may make sense for the math, but it's just not practical in hardware. There has to be a better, much simpler operation, that can give you equivalent results. Yes, you may have to re-think and re-train everything, but eventually it should make current architectures obsolete.