Comment by rwmj

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.