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I would fucking love to have an FGPA included with the newest Intel procs or something. :D Kinda looking forward to lowRISC with minion cores, though - if we e

• atemerev 11y ago
  We are stuck with x86 for good. Intel is doing impossible things both in engineering and business execution, and it's really hard to compete with them for anyone. Multicore ARM is still inferior to multicore x86.
  • justaaron 11y ago
    for which purpose? assuming which software load?
• jnbiche 11y ago
  > I would fucking love to have an FGPA included with the newest Intel procs or something. :D You're in luck: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/14/intel_xeon_fpga/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/14/intel_xeon_fpga/ Intel's purchase of Altera is sure to lead to all kinds of innovation in this area. This is hopefully only the start.
  • coroutines 11y ago
    That's awesome! :D To me it just seemed silly that we'd continually upgrade to get more dedicated circuitry for things like low-power video decoding. I know programming an FGPA still wouldn't be as efficient as it could be, but I think in the future it might be nice to have an FGPA available for adding things like x265 hardware decoding a year after purchase. What I'd REALLY love to see is an FPGA in a Chromebook for students. School will be so awesome in the next decade.