Azul had&#x2F;has some interesting technology. (They&#x27;re still around but just do software now.) I had some conversations on this topic broadly at a conference I was speaking at a month or so ago which had more hardware&#x2F;software overlap than is typical. IMO, we&#x27;re unlikely to come up with anything else in the near-term that delivered the kind of scaling CMOS process technology did. As a result, it&#x27;s at least possible that we&#x27;ll see specialized hardware make more sense in a world where &quot;Moore&#x27;s Law&quot; won&#x27;t let general purpose x86 chips just hit the same performance level in a couple of years.