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		streetcat1 on July 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Re... As a general rule, innovation in software always follow hardware. E.g. deep learning. With Moore law, it was always the case that general purpose CPU will always catch up to special purpose one (e.g. This killed sun and SGI), so it was hurting innovation.

teddyh on July 24, 2019 [–]

> With Moore law, it was always the case that general purpose CPU will always catch up to special purpose one (e.g. This killed sun and SGI),

And it also killed the Lisp Machines before that.

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