> x86s always get the latest semiconductor processes, while FPGAs always lag Two issues with this: 1) You cannot compare an FPGA architecture to a general pur

> x86s always get the latest semiconductor processes, while FPGAs always lag Two issues with this: 1) You cannot compare an FPGA architecture to a general purpose CPU. FPGAs are massively parallel by design and have near zero overhead, so 100 MHz in an FPGA != a 100 MHz CPU. 2) FPGAs do not lag that far behind and are moving to 16 nm and beyond for higher end products. Besides, due to 1), there really is no real need to move to lower nodes yet.