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by ksec 1899 days ago
We could but then we need software to take advantage of it, which means FPGA are like GPU in the early days without Direct X or OpenGL drivers sitting on top. Someone ( Microsoft ) will have to create a something that work across on both Xilinx and Altera.

Although I dont see that happening soon. Mostly because no one has the interest in doing so. What most likely will happen is that Apple are so far ahead in this game they started to take notice and work on something.

On Server it is very different though. Tiles and Chiplet will finally means FPGA can have their own node and optimisation while sitting next to CPU without all the complexity of trying to get them into the same silicon. Although the cost of specific software optimisation for specific task will likely means they only goes to HyperScaler.