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by chabons 913 days ago
AI models on FPGAs has been tried before, for instance: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-cat....

They haven't been able to compete with GPU's on perf/watt. In general you end up just designing some AI accelerator for the FPGA (because the models are too big to map onto a single device all at once), but it's hard to beat purpose-built tensor and vector HW on a GPU when you're running soft logic.