AI needs much simpler HW (since the SW is bespoke) and that’s why we see so many startups tackling this. I’m sure as ML becomes a bigger part of gaming (via coop matrix and LinAlg), we might see analog entering the gaming HW.
Gaming HW has a lot more cruft added on by standards and legacy SW. The number of gaming HW startups can be counted on one hand. QC and Apple have taken generations to get their HW ready. Even Intel needed 2 generations for their dGPU despite having a long line of iGPU
FPGA are very inefficient as compared to ASIC and need dedicated programming. It feels further than analog if we’re talking about a gaming HW using them
You’re not considering FPGAs, or the analog domain. For example:
AI needs much simpler HW (since the SW is bespoke) and that’s why we see so many startups tackling this. I’m sure as ML becomes a bigger part of gaming (via coop matrix and LinAlg), we might see analog entering the gaming HW.
Gaming HW has a lot more cruft added on by standards and legacy SW. The number of gaming HW startups can be counted on one hand. QC and Apple have taken generations to get their HW ready. Even Intel needed 2 generations for their dGPU despite having a long line of iGPU
FPGA are very inefficient as compared to ASIC and need dedicated programming. It feels further than analog if we’re talking about a gaming HW using them