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Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) by ginko on Sunday March 13, 2016 @08:36AM (#11277467)
>And large FPGAs are relatively expensive

That's an understatement.

http://www.findchips.com/search/xcvu9p

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Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) by aristidb on Sunday March 13, 2016 @10:04AM (#11277713)
Intel and NVidia also sell chips in this price range.

http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-... http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Accelerator-passive-cooling-900...

Now, I guess you can decent performance out of cheaper chips already, but paying $5000 for an Intel CPU is hardly rare.

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Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) by b1340276 on Sunday March 13, 2016 @01:54PM (#11278597)
You are ignoring that the 12 core Xeons are still relatively cheap at $2000 which means it's still affordable to just buy four of them and put them into a single server.
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