FPGAs are already powering key parts of both Azure and Bing. I asked Doug Burger after his presentation two weeks back at my university, and he said that curren

FPGAs are already powering key parts of both Azure and Bing. I asked Doug Burger after his presentation two weeks back at my university, and he said that currently the fabric is not reconfigurable. In other words, hardware acceleration is not available to customers yet, but it looks like they're working towards that. A nice little tidbit from the talk. They were able to translate all of Wikipedia from English to Russian using 90% of the deployed FPGAs in 0.1 seconds.