Jeff Dean Bullish on Specialized Chips as AI Starts Designing Its Own Hardware
ai · x · 2026-09-18
Jeff Dean argues that a handful of workloads will dominate world compute, making specialized hardware highly efficient—but hardware's two-year build cycle risks obsolescence. The sharer adds that using AI to design hardware will close that gap, and custom silicon will win.
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