Yeah, XMOS did a similar thing targeting audio (and I guess now AI), where this works brilliantly because sometimes you need very weird interfaces and custom fi

Yeah, XMOS did a similar thing targeting audio (and I guess now AI), where this works brilliantly because sometimes you need very weird interfaces and custom filters, and you also generally need to do tricks to pull tons of performance out of your cores. Parallax attempted to do the same in general-purpose microcontrollers, and I'm not sure they have really come out ahead for it - most of the time you really do just need I2C or SPI, and you have a 100 MHz 32-bit ARM with a full suite of peripherals as your alternative.