Nice explanation. For future advances, part of it could be solved by photonics, getting rid of most of the interconnects. Massively parallel simple computations could be carried out on a photonic neuromorphic substrate, making NNs use orders of magnitude less power.
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It does seem photonics are unavoidable, as copper only gets you so far, which is not c.