Intel has been producing low-end, low-power Cyclone FPGAs for a while -- the Cyclone 10 is their newest entry in this product line, which is what this device co

Intel has been producing low-end, low-power Cyclone FPGAs for a while -- the Cyclone 10 is their newest entry in this product line, which is what this device comes with. To my knowledge this is the first one directly paired with a microcontroller. They normally come with heavier-duty Linux-capable ARM devices, if anything. Microsemi are the only other vendor I know who offer uC/FPGA combos like this. Anyway, they probably didn't get some kind of direct subsidy on this, but they surely got volume discounts like any other major buyer -- it's a completely, totally different class of devices than what you'll see strapped on a Xeon, low cost, and they've been selling these kinda chips for a while now, overall (Cyclone 10 LP is fairly recent, tho)