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power efficiency was proven to be in the same orders of magnitude as MPU / GPU. see e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11879.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11879.p

power efficiency was proven to be in the same orders of magnitude as MPU / GPU. see e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11879.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11879.pdf. The ability to mutate its firmware gives another crucial edge. And my point is that FPGAs have evolved is small paces until today. While dedicated silicon has been optimized to the bones. Given the same dedication of companies to FPGAs - isn't it going to evolve into a better, cheaper device? More interesting info: see RiscV soft cores, SDRs, MCUs with internal logic fabric.

ThrowawayR2 5y ago
That paper is exactly the kind of thing I mean when I said "no existing purpose-built design fits the problem you have well enough to be practical" A custom built vision processor for the algoritm they're using would outperform all of the solutions in the paper by at least an order of magnitude. Just because FPGA solves a single, very specialized type of problem well doesn't mean that it solves every type of problem well.