On: The Free Software Foundation is even more relevant...

[pjc50]

By the nature of their technology, any FPGA will always be more expensive and energy hungry than the inflexible ASIC counterpart. No silver bullet.

What's more likely is interesting SoCs with partially reconfigurable analog blocks and accessible graphics co-processors.

[agumonkey → pjc50]

I understand that the flexibility of FPGA has a great cost, but with them we might have a better chance to ensure what the processor is actually doing.

I like your idea.