sounds highly specialized. expecting a chip to reconfigure itself for entire programs is a pipe dream

imagine a chip trying to reconfigure itself to run an Oracle database

you'd need quadrillions of logic gates

just to run a simple operating system would be overwhelming

if this isn't pure snake oil, it's just an FPGA_style coprocessor that's activated for particular jobs

but indeed, if it's real, it could be the RandomX chip we've hypothesized...

and if it gets adopted into every smartphone and other personal computing device, big win for us

can you explain why a RX chip would be beneficial?

if it were easily available, ubiquitous? that's a solid win because anyone and everyone could mine in their idle time

which is what they can do now with a CPU

but if this new chip is more efficient than a CPU, hey, why not use it

*and is not a single-source proprietary system

like, would anyone have a problem if ASICs if they were open?

with*

with the present generation of asic designs, probably yes.

and then, if they were open, but still only produced by a couple large players, is that still a problem?

e.g., see the antminer E3s being obsoleted on ETH

if they aren't inherently limited designs with planned obsolescence, then I think they would be acceptable.

hmm ya.

just like x86 chips only come from a couple of large players; everyone can get them, and the don't instantly become unusable as tech marches forward

i think a bad scenario would be that these new chips are better at RX than general CPUs, so they wouldnt be mass adopted which is one of the advantages we have targeting CPUs, and then they would only have a niche for RX.

are only better*

clearly they're being pitched for machine learning, which is a much bigger market than Monero

sorry thats a garbled mess. my point is that maybe they cant beat CPUs generally but they can at RX, so they are not useful to the mass market.

true

and the current trend is that every new smartphone processor design includes an AI/neural net processor

so the potential for mass adoption is already assured, if it actually works well.

are they pitching it to also be used generally or as a piggyback chip?

that seems a bit vague to me. they talk about it being the core of a ground-up redesign of entire computing systems

but as I already noted, the idea is ludicrous for a lot of common computing tasks

so I believe it will only pan out for some specialized tasks

From -pools

Apparently randomX is being used to benchmark/stress test CPUs