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It's still somewhat true. Desktop CPUs have hardware acceleration for things like video decoding, mainframes have hardware acceleration for things like encrypt
by dralley 3y ago
It's still somewhat true. Desktop CPUs have hardware acceleration for things like video decoding, mainframes have hardware acceleration for things like encryption / decryption, compression / decompression, fixed-decimal arithmetic, etc.
- peterfirefly 3y agoPlenty of x86 CPUs have had crypto instructions in the last decade or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions