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Dedicated, single purpose, chip designs are always going to be faster and more efficient to run than general purpose ones. The question will be what the environmental, and financial costs will be of updating to a new model. With a general purpose design it's just a case of liading sone new code. With a model that's baked into the silicon you have to design and manufacture new chips, then install them.
I can see this being useful in certain niche usecases where requirements are not going to change, but it sounds rather limiting in the general case.
fpgas can sort of be a middle ground, but i don't know if they're capable of running llms
Is there such a thing as modular fpga so that you could "plug in" another one and add more gates, sort of daisy chain them? I don't know if such interfaces exist , sounds like it might need lots of bandwidth.
I bet you could! The interface and literally be what ever you want with FPGAs. You'd just have to keep things organized and program them one at a time I think