[jononor]

Many of the common usecases, like camera input, will have dedicated peripheral a available in a System on Chip or microcontroller. Which would then generally be preferred over FPGA because it will require less custom development, quality assurance, etc.

[user_7832]

That's true, I was thinking of the more "extreme" use cases like those cameras which sample at hundreds (thousands?) of images a second.

[ckemere]

In this case, my maximum data rate is about ~256 Mbit. So not crazy, but not microcontroller either.