&gt; The article implies we will get even more specialized hardware that will speed up common categories of algorithms like gpus asics and FPGAs have been used.<p>Which is actually bad, because it entrenches existing solutions and makes it harder to switch to new, better algorithms.<p>Just look at cryptography: Now that AES is hardware accelerated in desktop CPUs, ChaCha has been bumped down to &quot;that one algorithm for mobile users with shitty CPUs&quot; with little to no chance of gaining significant traction on other markets until Intel decides to add hardware acceleration for it, too.