I think Altera had more to do with generic user modifiable compute. They have been working with FPGAs for a while now (http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/06/18

I think Altera had more to do with generic user modifiable compute. They have been working with FPGAs for a while now (http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/06/18/intel-mates-fpga-future-xeon-server-chip/ http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/06/18/intel-mates-fpga-fu...).