Note that as Moore's law is dying, FPGAs and custom silicon will become more important. In many scenarios, there is no use to a 1-year project to design custom

Note that as Moore's law is dying, FPGAs and custom silicon will become more important. In many scenarios, there is no use to a 1-year project to design custom silicon when within 1 year, a new CPU generation is being released that's double as fast. However, if that interval is 3 or 4 years or even longer, it suddenly becomes feasible.