I think you can find more mundane but much more widely applicable uses for FPGA fabric in future, especially if we start shipping them in most ARM CPUs. For ex

I think you can find more mundane but much more widely applicable uses for FPGA fabric in future, especially if we start shipping them in most ARM CPUs. For example, you can compress and decompress memory pages in real-time, which (for streaming applications at least) is one way to increase RAM bandwidth, or reduce system cost. Or hyper-optimize grep, sed and awk, and a hardware-assisted bitonic sort library for your DB. Cheaper, faster, lower-power compute for everyone.