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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by pbazarnik on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:06PM (#33416446)
The "cores" are becoming more specialized and optimized for domain specific tasks. Compiler technology advancements are needed to take advantage of such heterogenous architectures in a transparent way. LLVM MLIR started that already.[1,2] The alternative is being stuck with each silicon vendor's proprietary solutions like CUDA.

[1] https://mlir.llvm.org/ [2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/04/compiling_the_future/

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