Oh for sure, but not all hardware is for consumers. I used to design (and redesign every six months or so) a specialized hardware rendering cluster from commodity parts and at this point, the entire design is memory bandwidth limited.<p>FPGAs <i>might</i> be cost effective given that the total hardware cost is currently around $2 million with commodity motherboards, CPUs, and GPUs, since I could spend the silicon more wisely (and ideally, cut power usage at the same time) by implementing the actual software algorithms I use more carefully. I&#x27;m keeping a close eye on RISC-V and related projects.