I did a toy project once implementing a limited version of grep on an FPGA and was able to get some speedup over GNU grep at the time, though marginal.
In any case, LLMs aren't IO bound :))
And eventually hire people whose job it is to patch pipelines on demand for everyone in the office.
“Hey Jim, I’m gonna output the systemd logs of nginx on line five, can you assemble a grep pipeline for me to match all HTTP 500 status codes from /api/cart POST request log lines? Connect the filtered output to Tim’s desk, line 7. He’s there now, we are trying to figure something out.”
“Sure thing Bob, give me a moment.”
Put a Transputer in a Lego brick. Not "like a Lego brick", an actual Lego brick. Turn the notches into connectors for the serial link.
Plug'n'play.
Baring it all to software: Raw machines | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore https://share.google/nI9GyFJu4HvbYFrBf
(If you Google the name you will find free PDFs as well, the IEEE page is more useful as a summary and such.)
If your problem is grepping crazy amounts of data, the infrastructure for LLMs isn't a bad place to look for an example.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's what Apple is focused on for their next generation platforms – I wonder if more layers of caching between their SSDs and unified memory are on the cards.