Sufficiently autistic people will frequently come to sufficiently autistic conclusions.
I was thinking more along the lines of "why make more people if they're just going to grow up to think NFTs are non-fungible stores of value like land?"
Bitcoin is quite possibly one of the biggest waste of resources in the history of humanity. Enormous amounts of computing power, enormous amounts of energy devoted to making zeros in a spreadsheet.
They where smart enough to figure out long ago that making your money incredibly resource intensive was idiotic.
Generally most other top financial institutions try to optimize their datacenters to be as fast and energy efficient as is possible (this is one of the markets AMD's EPYC was specifically targeting) meanwhile Bitcoin is literally the opposite.
They've released no details yet. Tom's hardware figured it out from the name of a panel at a conference and a comment made by Intel's lead architect. As I understand it the ASIC being developed is confirmed... and thats about it.
