But on-chip FPGAs that reconfigure to enable specialized hardware might be enough to differentiate their product line. And being able to say you support DirectC

But on-chip FPGAs that reconfigure to enable specialized hardware might be enough to differentiate their product line. And being able to say you support DirectCNN 9.0 on your CPU isn't so absurd... I have the feeling a neural network accelerator will be no more surprising than a floating point unit in 20 years.