Comment by nickpsecurity

No, they are magic: arbitrary hardware designs run without the cost of chip fabrication. Two non-profit FPGA's, one for performance at 28nm & one for embedded at 28SLPnm, would totally address the custom hardware and subversion problem given we could just keep checking on that one. The PPC cores and soon Intel Xeons already show what a good CPU plus FPGA accleration w/ local memory can do for applications.

Yeah, buddy, they're like magic hardware. Even if they aren't ASIC-competitive for the best ASIC's. Still magic with a market share and diverse applications that shows it. :)