Comment by rasz
6 days ago
>It's hard to find places where FPGAs really win.
Rapid product development. Got a project that needs to ship in 6-9 months and will be on the market for less than two years in small volume? Thats where FPGAs go. Medical, test and measurement, military, video effects, telepresence, etc.
Sure but only a tiny fraction of products in these markets require the performance calling for an FPGA.
I'm not sure about that. In these fields there are plenty of places where you need to ingest or process masses of data (eg. from a sensor in a medical device), and you're only going to sell 5 of these machines a month for 100K each, so $3000+ bill of materials for an FPGA to solve the problem makes sense.
The problem (for Intel) is that you don't sell billions of dollars of FPGAs into a mass market this way.