Like you said , this ship has sailed. Maybe there's an open market in memchached acceleration(basically computing hashes). Convey does this with FPGA's[1], and

Like you said , this ship has sailed. Maybe there's an open market in memchached acceleration(basically computing hashes). Convey does this with FPGA's[1], and offers 3x performance/$. Or maybe other cloud compute acceleration stuff. I wonder though: if we're talking about using someone like easic.com( so scaling a business would be less risky and more investor friendly, since they can do low and mid volumes) ,How would the investment costs would look like(for 45nm/28nm) ? [1]http://www.enterprisetech.com/2013/09/24/convey-revs-memcached-hybrid-x86-fpga-appliance/ http://www.enterprisetech.com/2013/09/24/convey-revs-memcach...