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> FPGAs are such amazing & interesting systems, but it's been a terrible decade of them getting nowhere.. best case possibility is that this NPU AI thing maybe
by transpute 2y ago
> FPGAs are such amazing & interesting systems, but it's been a terrible decade of them getting nowhere.. best case possibility is that this NPU AI thing maybe breaths some life
Cut to sci-fi film as engineers in 4024 unearth a colossal landfill of 2024 AI "GPUs". They place one "GPU" into an additive fabrication device for automated scanning, interface construction, electrical and software analysis. Later, their AI announces that it has rewritten the "GPU" firmware, making the underlying hardware usable for general-purpose digital logic.