I still reserve the right to be astounded. One of my beta readers said I needed to add a disclaimer that this talk is satire, so I went through a few rounds to make the warning right. I guess we didn’t expect someone to get caught up in the title!

I’m astounded, I would have thought that putting an explanation that the article was satire would like…work. Should I have made it giant screaming red text?

Which games?

Wasn’t that intended to fix an issue where other players in your multiplayer session could cause your console to execute arbitrary code? Imagine the fallout if it became “play Mario Kart and then have your console refuse to boot again”

What workload makes that much of a difference?

Nix!

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum for me!

They already are, just not as main processors. They’re using it for all the microcontrollers that are essential in modern computers.