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Let's talk hypotheticals for a moment.
ASIC is (from what I understand) extremely fast at its designated task, e.g. ASIC designed for mining beats out even the fasted GPU. This in mind, could a microprocessor be designed that incorporates ASIC wired to handle tasks routinely encounter by CPUs?
I'd imagine that it wouldn't be applicable for desktops, but for specific workloads I feel like it would.
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asic just means 'specially made for this purpose'
A CPU is already specially made for its purpose
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a co-processor
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>>61207138
Google is already using them to go nuts with AI. https://www.wired.com/2017/04/building-ai-chip-saved-google-building-dozen-new-data-centers/
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>>61207138
A CPU is literally a collection of specialized hardware that can do general tasks. If you increase the amount of specialized hardware, you better either make the die bigger or get rid of something else.
Desktop CPUs are by definition designed to be generic.
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>>61207157
CPU doesn't mean built for purpose, ARM or x86 purpose is to be as versatile as possible, point of ASIC is to throw all the ubiquity out of the window and make it do one thing really good, like encoder chip.
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>>61207235
yeah
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>>61207138
that's my gf you're posting
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