Hardware Opus decoders are completely unnecessary for desktops, and probably so for laptops or even phones I think. It's possible it substantially improves batt

Hardware Opus decoders are completely unnecessary for desktops, and probably so for laptops or even phones I think. It's possible it substantially improves battery life in small-battery headphones and such, or it's physically impossible for headphone Bluetooth chips to support CPU decoding. But I doubt Opus is any harder to implement in hardware (or DSP firmware) than LC3 (which I don't know if it's easy to implement, but I assume they're trying to get hardware to support it).