[sliken]

I've heard that annually for a decade or so.

FPGAs run hot, don't have many transistors, limited clock rate, and are a pain to program.

So yeah a "Sufficiently large" chip, a "sufficiently fast clock", and a "sufficiently well written app" could theoretically do well. Problem is in the real world they aren't and developers aren't targeting them.

[astrodust]

CPUs and GPUs are a pain to program if you don't have the right tools. If it's tooling that's the huge impediment then maybe Intel's acquisition and (hopefully) tool realignment will help.

That the FPGAs use this proprietary and for all intents opaque binary format is not very helpful and is probably the biggest barrier.