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by pjc50 1101 days ago
This is extremely controversial given that the only marketing criterion of CPUs is .. performance.

If it can be hived off to a separate core, quite possibly on a separate die to avoid power attacks, then that seems a sensible approach from a hardware architecture point of view. But that complicates the software: how do you run your security critical browser Javascript on the co-processor?