Next-generation analytics and big data workloads will require hardware acceleration, including using GPUs, many-core accelerators, FPGAs, neuromorphic computing, and specialized ASICs.  This change is driven by a slowdown in Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling, which increases the return-on-investment from specialization and tuning.  The trend towards accelerators is already visible, as Microsoft is employing FPGAs to accelerate Bing searches, and Intel expects a third of cloud service providers to be using hybrid CPU—FPGA servers by 2020. The group will focus in developing new hardware architectures specialized for big data workloads.