In the past, specialized architectures tended to lose out to the performance gains of generic x86 chips.  I&#x27;m thinking RISC vs. CISC, or Sun&#x27;s attempt at a custom Java-optimized processor.<p>Is that no longer the case?  ARM architectures seem to be beating x86 for low power, mobile devices.  GPUs are being used for many easily parallelizable workloads.<p>Is an overall slow down in Moore&#x27;s law making chips designed for specific tasks (like Deep Neural Nets), attractive again?