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In the end I think specialized hardware always looses over software - that's why those things failed.
In my opinion this statement only holds in times of massive performance growth in hardware. This held true at that time, but does not necessarily hold anymore.
There is a reason why modern SoCs contain more and more specialized blocks, say, for video decoding/encoding, NPU, graphics processing (GPU), raytracing (modern GPUs), perhaps DSP, ...
In my opinion this statement only holds in times of massive performance growth in hardware. This held true at that time, but does not necessarily hold anymore. There is a reason why modern SoCs contain more and more specialized blocks, say, for video decoding/encoding, NPU, graphics processing (GPU), raytracing (modern GPUs), perhaps DSP, ...