Seems doubtful. I thought that way too in the '90s but what happened was that anything that was a common enough use case got moved into dedicated hardware (GPU

Seems doubtful. I thought that way too in the '90s but what happened was that anything that was a common enough use case got moved into dedicated hardware (GPU, cryptographic acceleration instructions in the CPU) and anything uncommon is too hard for the average developer to write the Verilog/VHDL to implement.