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by formercoder 2218 days ago
FPGAs have been around for quite awhile. Is something changing?
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Kliment 2218 days ago
Non-stupid open toolchains are slowly happening. Vendor toolchains are the biggest thing holding back FPGAs. Everyone hates them, they're slow, huge, and annoying to use.
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hikarudo 2218 days ago
One thing that is changing quickly: deep learning, particularly inference on the edge. FPGAs are more versatile than ASICs.
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BooneJS 2218 days ago
Everyone making ML ASICs would disagree.
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formercoder 2218 days ago
This just provides a cost advantage though right? I mean that’s great, love me some margin, but it’s not really a new frontier. Unless I’m wrong?
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