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That already happens, but they always seem to rejoin the CPU. GPUs are headed that way. Math coprocessors went back a long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprocessor




You can have the CPU share the die with the secure cores, but you'd need to figure out a lot of complexity, like dealing with memory access pattern leakage due to a shared memory bus. The less things you share, the less the performant parts need to care about security, and the secure parts need to care about performance.




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