Comment by sowbug

4 months ago

Ugh, quick, everyone start panic-buying FPGAs now.

largest FPGAs have on the order of tens of millions of logic cells/elements. They’re not even remotely big enough to emulate these designs except to validate small parts of it at a time and unlike memory chips or GPUs, companies don’t need millions of them to scale infrastructure.

(The chips also cost tens of thousands of dollars each)