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Hardware was probably always lagging behind cutting edge research, just consider video games, they pushed hardware limitations very hard since Pong.

It's a good thing to be fair, forcing research teams to optimize their projects is beneficial and creates a competition for limited resources. This gets a bit skewed when we consider a university research team vs. a MANGA type company, but the team behind Stable diffusion proved that innovation can come from unexpected places.