Most applications don't really need the flexibility of an FPGA. Just having massively parallel multiply-accumulate turns out to cover huge amounts of digital s

Most applications don't really need the flexibility of an FPGA. Just having massively parallel multiply-accumulate turns out to cover huge amounts of digital signal processing and machine learning applications. A long time ago computers sometimes came with DSPs dedicated to Photoshop-like programs. The GPU is a logical extension of that. The FPGA is something entirely different.