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I always wondered about these and using something like this for general computing. The closest I could see someone doing this was Apple with the Mac Pro and the
by tiernano 2y ago
I always wondered about these and using something like this for general computing. The closest I could see someone doing this was Apple with the Mac Pro and the Afterburner for video editing. A newer GPU would do the same, but adding something for a specific task also makes sense. I also hoped someone would build a PCIe card with ARM processors on a PC to allow it to offload some tasks... Think iSCSI and network offload functions on the card, allowing the host to do normal jobs... The host would see the iSCSI as NVMe or SATA and be none the wiser... Kind of like a DPU... But, alas, nothing like that has happened... Thinking now, something like that with Thunderbolt is pretty much what AWS Nitro on the Mac Mini is, right?