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Re:Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites ... by colejohnson66 on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:15PM (#21567721)
Aren’t FPGAs slower than ASICs though?
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Re:Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites ... by fhars on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:35PM (#21567900)
That depends a bit on whether you count the fabrication time for a new ASIC towards the application startup time when switching applications or not.
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Re:Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites ... by ryacko on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:49PM (#21569377)
Certainly propagation delay is higher. But for many applications it is cheaper to implement them in software than ASICs.

And besides, FPGAs are used for web scale applications, many of them applicable to small computers.

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