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I still don't know why anyone is obsessed with the theoretical performance over the practical/economical performance of the technologies in practice. FPGAs win
by imtringued 2mo ago
I still don't know why anyone is obsessed with the theoretical performance over the practical/economical performance of the technologies in practice.
FPGAs win against MCUs in terms of performance and they only lose in terms of static power consumption, not on performance per watt.
Also, there was a company doing LLM inference on FPGAs and their entire selling point was that they were more energy efficient than Nvidia so you can add more FPGAs onto the same rack.
Finally, the ASIC Vs FPGA battle is kind of meaningless because the moment you decide to reprogram your FPGA for any reason, ASICs aren't even in the same market anymore.
Then there is the fact that FPGAs tends to have insane amounts of SRAM bandwidth compared to most chips.