The Age Of Acceleration Engines
The Next Platform, March 31st, 2023
Sponsored Feature: Back in the old days, there was a CPU and chip designers crammed everything into that single CPU, which made sense for the greatest number of customers offset against the additional cost of adding extra functionality
Any kind of specialized computing ended up being implemented on special accelerator cards running on the peripheral bus or implemented in higher level software running on the CPU. And that caused obvious, but inevitable, inefficiencies due to the economics involved.
Here in the second decade of the 21st century, the same economics and desire for accelerated functions are playing out. But instead of doing so across the motherboard they are more likely to be playing out inside of a socket, which is itself more like a motherboard and in many ways a self-contained system in its own right.