Oh for sure, but not all hardware is for consumers. I used to design (and redesign every six months or so) a specialized hardware rendering cluster from commodi

Oh for sure, but not all hardware is for consumers. I used to design (and redesign every six months or so) a specialized hardware rendering cluster from commodity parts and at this point, the entire design is memory bandwidth limited. FPGAs might be cost effective given that the total hardware cost is currently around $2 million with commodity motherboards, CPUs, and GPUs, since I could spend the silicon more wisely (and ideally, cut power usage at the same time) by implementing the actual software algorithms I use more carefully. I'm keeping a close eye on RISC-V and related projects.