> I’m not seeing a huge use case here except the narrowest of uses like decryption, compression.
SSD already have all provisions for both, and do it. Something like that will genuinely benefit more from a highly optimised ASIC than anything else.
The use case is obviously huge, and you don't see the elephant in the room: money.
Putting all those drives to even a cheapest Xeon around, increases the price n-fold over the price of the flash, unless you talk about multi-terabyte scale SSDs.
SSD already have all provisions for both, and do it. Something like that will genuinely benefit more from a highly optimised ASIC than anything else.
The use case is obviously huge, and you don't see the elephant in the room: money.
Putting all those drives to even a cheapest Xeon around, increases the price n-fold over the price of the flash, unless you talk about multi-terabyte scale SSDs.