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Re:Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B by noipv4 on Monday June 01, 2015 @03:44PM (#9641584)
It was completely compute bound. Communicating with the host using just an RS232C UART was sufficient to keep the FPGA busy while computing Bitcoin's 2xSHA256 hashes.
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