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_hark 21 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity ...

If FPGAs are competitive on perf/watt, why aren't they more widespread (other than crap software tooling)?

Honestly I've asked different hardware researchers this question and they all seem to give different answers.

irq-1 20 days ago [–]

They're competitive on perf/watt because they're designed to do one thing. But they're much more expensive than an ASIC, which, if also designed to do one thing would be better than the FPGA.

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