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 rowanG077 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:36PM (#37773148)

I actually think there are a ton of problems which could benefit. But there is just very little mindshare. You basically have 1000x people working on building software to run efficiently on the GPU. No way FPGA touches that. It doesn't help that it's a specialized set of skills to build high performance circuit. Whereas running on a GPU is "just" software.

So even though I think FPGA could win out from an efficiency perspective there is just not enough people working on it.

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Re:Intel to Set Its FPGA Unit Free to Pursue Its Own Path – ... by ethbr1 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:59PM (#37774779)

That's been a historically really good bet for processor architectures -- developer volume beats hypothetical performance.

Essentially the only time it's gone the other way was when there was a toehold in a critical market, where the benefits were so obvious and profitable that they made up for the difficulty (e.g. graphics).

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