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>It's hard to find places where FPGAs really win. Rapid product development. Got a project that needs to ship in 6-9 months and will be on the market for less
by rasz 2y ago
>It's hard to find places where FPGAs really win.
Rapid product development. Got a project that needs to ship in 6-9 months and will be on the market for less than two years in small volume? Thats where FPGAs go. Medical, test and measurement, military, video effects, telepresence, etc.
- varjag 2y agoSure but only a tiny fraction of products in these markets require the performance calling for an FPGA.
- rwmj 2y agoI'm not sure about that. In these fields there are plenty of places where you need to ingest or process masses of data (eg. from a sensor in a medical device), and you're only going to sell 5 of these machines a month for 100K each, so $3000+ bill of materials for an FPGA to solve the problem makes sense. The problem (for Intel) is that you don't sell billions of dollars of FPGAs into a mass market this way.