Comment by randomNumber7

If you look at the history how GPUs evolved:

1. there had be fixed function hardware for certain graphics stages

2. Programmable massively parallel hardware took over. Nvidia was at the forefront of this.

TPUs seem to me similar to fixed function hardware. For Nvidia it's a step backwards and even though they go into this direction recently I can't see them go all the way.

Otherwise you don't need cuda, but hardware guy's that write verilog or vhdl. They don't have that much of an edge there.