"Altera's new hardcoded floating point-enhanced FPGAs. Too bad I have no idea how much they cost." Probably in the same ballpark as current high end Altera chi

"Altera's new hardcoded floating point-enhanced FPGAs. Too bad I have no idea how much they cost." Probably in the same ballpark as current high end Altera chips: over $30k. If you need a thousand of them for your datacenter, think about what kind of ASIC you could design for $30 millions. Or think about how many Titan X cards you can buy for $30k :)