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I am not yet convinced we will see tons of FPGAs. They are less power efficient than ASICs. Yes ASICs cost a lot more up front. But as the companies get bigg
by glenrivard 8y ago
I am not yet convinced we will see tons of FPGAs. They are less power efficient than ASICs.
Yes ASICs cost a lot more up front. But as the companies get bigger and bigger they can afford that up front cost.
The cost of making an ASIC has already dropped and would expect that to continue to happen.
Plus we have the issue of needing to integrate memory with computation to lower power use of moving around data and that is a even harder to do on a FPGA then an ASIC.
- technomalogical 8y agoFPGA still has some advantages over ASIC development: - development speed of FPGA over the typical ASIC lifecycle is much shorter - the ability to field-program and correct a design flaw can not only save expensive iterations, but also to add new hardware features essentially as a "firmware" upgrade (provided the FPGA in the system has extra capacity) There will always be a place for ASIC, but FPGAs provide some capabilities that are not available (impossible?) for ASIC.