Agreed. One of the least efficient things to do with digital logic is floating point multiplication. The second least efficient is probably integer multiply (I'm just kidding a bit here).
Multiplication may make sense for the math, but it's just not practical in hardware. There has to be a better, much simpler operation, that can give you equivalent results. Yes, you may have to re-think and re-train everything, but eventually it should make current architectures obsolete.
Multiplication may make sense for the math, but it's just not practical in hardware. There has to be a better, much simpler operation, that can give you equivalent results. Yes, you may have to re-think and re-train everything, but eventually it should make current architectures obsolete.