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Re:Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics by slededit on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:14PM (#17560765)
In our case we're an FPGA shop looking to transition. There really needs to be a support group for people like us. We have a hard time figuring out what's even feasible.
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Re:Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics by bsder on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:03PM (#17561633)
There used to be companies like that. Unfortunately, the market for that is so small that it simply isn't worth it and they all died.
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Re:Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics by slededit on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:52PM (#17561958)
The difference these days is that with the death of Dennard scaling and Moore's law there's a place now for customized hardware. You really can beat Intel and even NVidia now for specialized workloads with FPGAs. Of course you'd be even better with an ASIC which is why we're leaning that way.
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Re:Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics by someguydave on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:20AM (#17563917)
Intel sees this threat which is why they are working to glue an altera asic onto the xeon core. I don't think it's likely they will succeed though.
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