As far as I can tell, the AArch64-ness of these parts is only half of the (very exciting!) story ... the really interesting thing is that these are being manufa

As far as I can tell, the AArch64-ness of these parts is only half of the (very exciting!) story ... the really interesting thing is that these are being manufactured on Intel's 14nm FinFET process. To date, I didn't think anyone was doing FPGAs on Intel's process except for Achronix, and they're relatively low-volume... so high-volume FPGAs (and with ARM cores, no less!) on a leading-edge Intel process is truly astounding. These will be ghastly expensive parts, that much is for sure, but they have the potential to be really fast. I've always been a Xilinx user, but I will absolutely give credit where credit is due here: Altera seems to have pulled off something pretty remarkable. I'm excited to see what performance is like when these actually show up.