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Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw... by dewiz on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:34AM (#16138414)
If you could design your own processors to run your only code and processing your only input, I’m pretty sure it would be 10x to 100x faster
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Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw... by NegativeLatency on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:57AM (#16138687)
ASICs and FPGAs do this.

They're used in bitcoin mining where you do the same operation over and over.

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