ASICs out, AI GPUs in. And probably net-nothing for PC gaming.
article points out that all the gpus being swapped (out of bitcoin miner racks) out for AI chips. but the current miner rigs are powered by ASICs, not GPUs, and the former are useless excepth what they we created to do (generally, ASICs are written for one “progran”. and that program is the specific code for one task; it can do the task very very fast, but can’t EVER do anything else. they are hardwired for that task, literally. interesting thatin the origianl computer days, “programming was doen by pathch panels and plug boards; also interesting is the “computers” (generally women who would enter a ver specific set of insrutcions on a manaal caluclaatror, just one step in hundres that could be executed massizvely pareallle. these women beceom eht e plugboard patch woireres and in some cases, the programmers thaat took the programming manual, and made the first programs,.
