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I don't understand why this is. As the high end stuff gets down to 10nm-ish, shouldn't it have gotten way cheaper to fabricate micron-precision chips?

• zozbot234 7y ago
  AIUI, you can just use FPGA on a 10nm-ish process and get roughly the same performance as hardwired logic on a micron-precision chip. Still useful for analog though, and I imagine that going even a bit lower but still very cheap (in the hundred-nm range, perhaps) would still yield better performance than a state-of-the-art FPGA, given the one- or two-orders-of-magnitude overhead that's inherent in those.
  • rini17 7y ago
    Is there's open-source FPGA? (I mean not reverse-engineered which relies on mercy of the manufacturer who can discontinue it anytime)
    • l33tman 7y ago
      Just for that reason there's no point really, you can just switch in the next generation FPGA (more or less) as the high-level HDL stays the same.
      • rini17 7y ago
        Then there is no point in open source C compiler, either? The language stays the same...