[hinkley]

It’s been said before, about ROM chips for sure, but I don’t know if history necessarily agrees regarding other chips, that there’s a point at which the opportunity cost of “just enough” silicon is too high and so you end up with a choice between way more than you need for simple tasks, or doing without (eg, embedding that responsibility in some other chip).

I think a lot of projects will be targeting ARM CPUs in the next era of computing, and I hope one day we will see entire processes moving off the cpu and onto peripherals.

Give me a RAID controller that can run Postgres directly on it, or an SSD that can run SQLite. Give me a network card that runs eBPF, or even nginx.