I have to wonder whether PCIe devices that do hardware encoding / decoding might be the more viable path going forward? Wait, I just discovered GPUs, nevermind

I have to wonder whether PCIe devices that do hardware encoding / decoding might be the more viable path going forward? Wait, I just discovered GPUs, nevermind. [giggles] Still, the ability to do specialized work should probably be offloaded to specialized but pluggable hardware. I wonder what the economics of this would be...