The primary competitor for FPGAs at the moment is not so much CPUs as GPUs. Will be interesting to see what kind of systems will end up using FPGAs in datacente

The primary competitor for FPGAs at the moment is not so much CPUs as GPUs. Will be interesting to see what kind of systems will end up using FPGAs in datacenters. Low-latency inference using neural networks could be one. Especially if the practice of "quantizing" the networks (using <32bit integers) as Google does with their TF chips take off.