Would a CPU architecture with specialised cores or SPEs be beneficial?

>>59173171
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>would Cell Broadband Engine be beneficial

CPU architecture with builtin FPGA, however, would.

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>>59173171
>Would a CPU architecture with specialised cores or SPEs be beneficial?
Of course, that's what a floating-point unit, GPU, etc really are in the end.
>2 specialised cores for handling the OS and it's background processes and another 2 cores for things like I/O, the SB/NB and various other components, freeing up the main cores.
We did these kinds of things in the '80s, it wasn't very uncommon to see high-end workstations like pic-related running general purpose chips just for handling I/O or other specific functions. But nowadays CPUs are so blindingly fast for those kinds of tasks that there's not as much of a point in spending more time, effort and silicon on such a solution.