This is above my pay grade but since LLMs have become the 24/7 code writers, I started to wonder if our processing architecture could see much more innovation. I see light-enabled processing, analog processing and other headlines on posts/YouTube. Most are focused on inference though. But there is also the need to run generated code on cheaper, efficient chips.

I guess these are all really expensive and need VC funding. But perhaps there are existing architectures that allow baking code into silicon, or new architectures for NNs and so on. If costs are low, there is a massive demand coming for code that we want to write and forget - keeps on running on low powered last-mile devices. From factories, farms to home equipment.