ASICs, or Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, are specialized chips that are designed to perform a specific operation in a highly efficient manner.
Customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use.
Used for:
- AI chips with thousands of multipliers in parallel.
- Bitcoin mining chips that have hundreds of hash function calculators.
Designed to perform a specific task with hugh efficiency, which makes them ideal for applications that require high performance and low power consumption.
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)