> Can't do same with ASICs. shrug I can't really say anything except that's not the only way to accomplish that sort of thing. And if it's a common enough use

> Can't do same with ASICs. shrug I can't really say anything except that's not the only way to accomplish that sort of thing. And if it's a common enough use case that you need to build it into millions of pieces of ammunition, it doesn't explain why economies of scale never kicked in or a more purposeful custom part was never designed. Limitless military budgets, by contrast, explain quite well why this /hasnt/ happened. The cost of making a chip is proportional to the size of the chip and the process node, and that's the end of the story. FPGA and CPU quite literally cost the same to manufacture; it doesn't explain why the one categorically is priced 10 times higher than the other by die area, even in the long tail of the supply chain.