[bitcracker]

> FPGAs are very expensive.

Yes currently, but price depends on demand. On the other side, if FPGAs remain expensive then Assembler could become even more important to put as much code as possible into an fpga.

> can be likened more to C than assembler.

For that reason I mentioned the word Assembler in quotes. Btw VHDL is much more like Ada than C while Verilog is different from both.

[femto]

FPGAs also consume more power for a given clock rate, and their maximum frequency is less than a dedicated chip. It would be unusual to dedicate an FPGA to implementing a CPU.

It might change in the future though? I remember some years ago, the possibility of nanotube based chips were being touted, offering FPGA like programmability and speeds greater than a dedicated chip. I haven't heard of it since.