That’s how we got an explosion of interesting hardware in the early 80s - hardware companies attempting to entice consumers by claiming “blazing 16 bit speeds”

That’s how we got an explosion of interesting hardware in the early 80s - hardware companies attempting to entice consumers by claiming “blazing 16 bit speeds” or other nonsense. It was a marketing circus but it drove real investments and innovation over time. I’d hope the same could happen here.