On 01/31/2016 06:34 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > A question about pricing on FPGAs, and just out of my curiosity. Why is it > the most expensive ones cost over 50k dolars? I know they have great > paralelism capabilities and a lot of IOs but god those are expensive! > > Well, seems their only customer is the NSA for some supersecret code-cracking machine, and they apparently will pay for such devices. The really BIG FPGAs are huge amounts of configurable logic. You can probably fit 100 old 370 computers in there and run them at 10X the original clock speed.
Possibly these also get used for simulation of chip designs and such stuff. But, obviously the market for a $50K chip must be QUITE narrow. And, thinking of a whole board covered in these chips makes my knees start quivering. I use the $13 Xilinx Spartan 3A 50 and think it is just great! Smallest of the family, but plenty of resources for me. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
