Care to refer to any good CS/EE book that asserts your opinion?

You may want to re-read the definition of Turing equivalence. You should find it in any good CS/EE book.

You could bake a JS interpreter in silico. There are actual hardawre implementations of the JVM. You can also run machine language in emulators.

CPUs are just hardware interpreters for their respective machine language.

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I guess you could argue that an interpreter is specifically a piece of software, in which case my point wouldn't stand.