Sarah Hooker's concept of a 'Hardware Lottery' in early AI research might suit some of your criteria, though it was not a permanent lockin really - http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489
Sarah Hooker's concept of a 'Hardware Lottery' in early AI research might suit some of your criteria, though it was not a permanent lockin really - http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489