Back in the mid-to-late nineties, Federico Faggin, designer of Intel's seminal 4004 (and ancestor of the whole x86 lineage) co-founded a company called Starbrid

Back in the mid-to-late nineties, Federico Faggin, designer of Intel's seminal 4004 (and ancestor of the whole x86 lineage) co-founded a company called Starbridge Systems that aimed to construct and sell what they termed hypercomputers whose architecture was rapidly-reconfiguring FPGAs that an enabled a compile-to-hardware model. Here's one of the few references to that project that I can now find online, a WIRED era piece with all the gushing nerd optimism of the pre-dot-com-bust: https://www.wired.com/1999/02/the-super-duper-hypercomputer/ https://www.wired.com/1999/02/the-super-duper-hypercomputer/ I suppose this is where Intel is headed now with these first few tentative steps.