Yeah, basically everything that you consider a peripheral is a full blown computer with its own CPU and memory. Your nvme controller, your NIC, your USB hub, et

Yeah, basically everything that you consider a peripheral is a full blown computer with its own CPU and memory. Your nvme controller, your NIC, your USB hub, etc. They main thing people need to care about is whether or not they can connect to the internet without going through the main CPU on the system. I'm not worried about storage controllers for that reason, but I'm relatively afraid of my modem.