Back when I was trading, we poked at FPGAs.. but they were 10x or 100x slower than ASICS. They were "cool" in that you can 100% predict the speed.. like guaran

Back when I was trading, we poked at FPGAs.. but they were 10x or 100x slower than ASICS. They were "cool" in that you can 100% predict the speed.. like guarantee algo X takes Yns to complete... which is very useful for some things, but the brute power was really not that impressive compared to a fast intel CPU with no or a very thin OS. I don't think the profit margin can support that kind of efficiency loss, you are back to near CPU levels..