On 10/12/2013 05:43 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
The main fear I have is that there is not enough funding because
nobody can really use it in daily work without investing another lots
of money (to integrate the FPGA with something). BR, Nikolaus
Speaking in generalities - FPGAs use lots more power for a given task
than dedicated hardware.
They are also a lot more expensive.
This is unlikely to be $400K investment, then $20 per chip.
More like 400K investment leading to something that works on a $1000
FPGA, and uses several times the
power of a comparable device.
Is this interesting - in principle - yes - combined with an ARM licence,
it could lead to a moderately low risk CPU, if someone were willing to
put up the several-many million to make a CPU with it on die.
Off-die GPUs are an utter non-starter for mobile devices.
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