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by GrumpyYoungMan 2779 days ago
It has been researched: Alessandro Forin's eMIPS research project was on integrating FPGA fabric as an execution unit.

Project page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/emips/

Research paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Back then Moore's Law was still going full steam so there wasn't much interest but, who knows, maybe that will change in a few years.