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Re:How Does an FPGA Work? by y0ungarmanii on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:00PM (#35808361)
I saw various comments about how FPGAs are not ready for consumer hardware, apple is using them in the airpod max already (probably for filtering audio)

Check the link below https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Max+Teardown/139369

They really excel for high throughput & low latency - which noise canceling sounds like a good example of! In addition to this, they are already being used in communication systems & data centers to speed up latency sensitive computations. Edge AI seems like a big market that they will be used for soon, probably more likely b/c they can be flashed unlike ASICs and new NN architectures drop every couple of years.

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Re:How Does an FPGA Work? by kimburgess on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:05PM (#35809024)
There’ll also extremely common in most hardware used for any realtime media processing. With them being mutable it can be updated to support new compression methods, or switched in field to drop a device between acting as an encoder or decoder.
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