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by rbanffy 745 days ago
It’s a lot more work to push data to a GPU or NPU than to just to a couple vector ops. Crypto is important enough many architectures have hardware accelerators just for that.
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For servers no, but we’re talking about endpoints here. Also this isn’t only about reducing the existing vector bandwidth but also about not increasing it outside of dedicated co-processors.