Recently on the topic of FPGA, there are comments questioning the value for the acquisitions of Altera and Xilinx by Intel and AMD, respectively [1]. Apparentl

Recently on the topic of FPGA, there are comments questioning the value for the acquisitions of Altera and Xilinx by Intel and AMD, respectively [1]. Apparently these acquisitions are inevitable and the writings are already on the wall due to some strategic reasons. One of the main reasons is that there's significant shortage of talents in the electronics industry. [1]FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=teleforce#31975094 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=teleforce#31975094