Given Oracle's history in marketing vs technical competence, that's probably why they're adding it: people like how it sounds. And we'll probably never see any

Given Oracle's history in marketing vs technical competence, that's probably why they're adding it: people like how it sounds. And we'll probably never see any credible evaluation since they NDA all their customers. From a real computer architecture standpoint the idea sounds pretty far fetched. (People in academia have been looking at FPGA and GPU acceleration in this domain for years. It's really a problem for which a CPU is a pretty good fit, with lots of branchy control flow etc.)