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Comment by blacksmythe | Hacker News Reader

  >> expensive, hard-to-source hardware engineering skills.

If only that were true.

Lots of hardware engineers have moved into software.

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If it was more practical to source hardware skills and develop fpga components there are quite a few companies and academic institutions interested in exploring direct hardware acceleration. In particular seeing examples of matrix operations carried out on fpga or graph traversals would be an excellent starting point to driving adoption

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