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It seems to me that there are exactly 3 buyers for FPGAs: Government contractors (who spend millions all at once), retro gamers (small market), and electronics
by phendrenad2 10mo ago
It seems to me that there are exactly 3 buyers for FPGAs: Government contractors (who spend millions all at once), retro gamers (small market), and electronics hobbyists (another small market). It's no wonder every company has orientated itself towards the first one. I look to China to accidentally make chips that are an order of magnitude better "just because they can".
- lvoudour 10mo agoYou forget network infrastructure, high frequency trading, ASIC prototyping and emulation. These are not hobbyist or government markets
- phendrenad2 10mo agoTrue but they behave exactly like government markets ("no price is too high") so I don't quite understand why the comment.