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To address this challenge, the company was started to accelerate software. The vision was that there are applications that would benefit from acceleration, and this acceleration benefit has the same qualities as Moore's Law for applications that were impossible or impractical to perform using general-purpose computing.
One example is real-time computer graphics, which was made possible because of NVIDIA's introduction of GPUs. However, the company felt that long-term accelerated computing could be far more impactful. There is no single magical processor that can accelerate everything in the world, as that would just be called a CPU. Instead, the computing stack needs to be reinvented from the algorithms to the architecture underneath, and connected to applications on top.
The Reinvention of the Computing Stack
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