> If FPGAs were so good as processors, everybody would run them. FPGA are used to demo processors but then they end up in silicon because of integration, cost a

> If FPGAs were so good as processors, everybody would run them. FPGA are used to demo processors but then they end up in silicon because of integration, cost and power consumption. You're right, but that's precisely what they are doing. They offer a processor emulation platform (on FPGA) for customers who would like to develop their application before the chip release. It doesn't seem to me that they are claiming the FPGA-based platform runs at 4GHz and beats all CPUs and GPUs, they are claiming that the chip they will be releasing soon will. That said, it's a CPU based on a VLIW architecture (like Itanium). And this architecture is not known to be efficient for general purpose applications.