This is pretty damned exciting IMO. Intel has a long history of thorough documentation and high-quality tools, available to anybody for a reasonable price if no

This is pretty damned exciting IMO. Intel has a long history of thorough documentation and high-quality tools, available to anybody for a reasonable price if not free. Basically the polar opposite of every single player in the FPGA space. Their tools are garbage, cost a mint, and documentation is lax.