I remember talking to a guy working in this field when I was job hunting earlier. For all the talk of CPU speed, there seemed to be little interest in nontradi

I remember talking to a guy working in this field when I was job hunting earlier. For all the talk of CPU speed, there seemed to be little interest in nontraditional architectures (e.g., FPGAs, etc), for the reason that their incoming data rate was the primary bottleneck. Then again, I may have been talking to the wrong one. E.g., maybe a few've gotten some of those fpga ethernet boards? Still, I'd expect a little more VHDL demand than I'm seeing.