It certainly is exciting. Tech that began by replacing discrete logic ICs (TI 7400 series) is getting powerful enough to pack a computing punch. Look up systol

It certainly is exciting. Tech that began by replacing discrete logic ICs (TI 7400 series) is getting powerful enough to pack a computing punch. Look up systolic array architectures for matrix multiplication if you're not already familiar. They play nice with FPGAs (which are design space limited in comparison to ASICs). And can efficiently implement algorithms that are prone to combinatoric explosion by amortizing expenisve off chip memory accesses over multiple operations as the data passes trough the sys array. If the FPGA manufactures want to open the advantages to all comers they'd make their design software free (as in beer, not freedom) an pAy for it with silicon sales.