> But an FPGA (as it is today) cannot compete with a GPGPU
I read an interesting quip somewhere on software/hardware development: 'civil engineering would look very different if the properties of concrete changed every 4 years.'
If at some point we stop scaling chip performance. And many-core-integration in/on a single chip/die stops making sense. Then glue logic starts to look like a key differentiator. And control over glue logic starts to look like control over profits.
Intel ate the chipset for performance reasons and so they could shape their own destiny.
If there aren't fundamental breakthroughs to preserve performance scaling as we know it, then I see this as more of the same.
I read an interesting quip somewhere on software/hardware development: 'civil engineering would look very different if the properties of concrete changed every 4 years.'
If at some point we stop scaling chip performance. And many-core-integration in/on a single chip/die stops making sense. Then glue logic starts to look like a key differentiator. And control over glue logic starts to look like control over profits.
Intel ate the chipset for performance reasons and so they could shape their own destiny.
If there aren't fundamental breakthroughs to preserve performance scaling as we know it, then I see this as more of the same.