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by Inthenameofmine 3646 days ago
This is definitely already starting to happen.

Modern server CPUs have FPGAs in them. I was able to speed up Blockchain transaction signing and verification by 2 order of magnitude by utilizing the Intel in-build FPGAs.

Mobile phone SoCs already have semi-specialized processors in them. Microsoft's Hololens has something what they call "HPU" Holographic Processing Unit. Google just made public that they have a TensorFlow ASIC. Google's phone radar thingy has it's own ASIC if I'm not mistaken.