Intel to Set Its FPGA Unit Free to Pursue Its Own Path

Re:Intel to Set Its FPGA Unit Free to Pursue Its Own Path – ... by eschneider on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:33PM (#37768699)

This doesn't make a lot of sense. I mean, there are SOCs out there with asymmetric cores (say, an ARM A53 and an ARM M4 on the same die) for folks who's workloads warrant that sorta thing. I'd expect there'd be s similar market for CPUs, with built in FPGAs of various sizes.

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Re:Intel to Set Its FPGA Unit Free to Pursue Its Own Path – ... by tverbeure on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:40PM (#37768817)

It only makes sense for a few applications. See the popular Xilinx Zynq UltraScale MPSoC product line. They are popular for digital signal processing, for example. But they are not power efficient, and they are very expensive.

Good enough for a low volume custom solution for which custom silicon is too expensive. Not for a hyperscaler.

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