To add to that: this is really nothing new, hard drives have had such chips for decades now, and even floppy disk drive for Commodore [0] was powered by its own

To add to that: this is really nothing new, hard drives have had such chips for decades now, and even floppy disk drive for Commodore [0] was powered by its own 6502 CPU back in the 1980s. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541