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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) by simias on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:45AM (#13743302)
I think FPGAs are too expensive to be used for general purpose computing. If on top of the chip price you add the development time it's just not cost effective. A high-end FPGA will cost you thousands of dollars and you won't be able to easily convert software code to HDL. A very high end GPU will be cheaper and easier to develop for.

There are situations where a FPGA is better suited of course (very low latency real time signal processing for instance) but for general purpose computing FPGAs are not exactly ready for primetime IMO.

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