Could also be a comment on hardware accelerating the difficult bits of some software. A web server could potentially take advantage from hardware accelerated TLS for example.
Modern CPUs already have dedicated crypto instructions which are pretty fast, without the cost of copying to another device's memory, loading a program, waiting for it to execute, then copying the output back.
More likely audio/video workflows where encoding/decoding within a FPGA could be really useful. Realtime effects is also an interesting opportunity (e.g. similar function to the DSP accelerators on Universal Audio equipment).
