[tlrobinson]

And finally, someone will need to start shipping FPGAs with a standardized interface on commodity hardware.

If Apple included an FPGA in their machines with some cool sounding marketing name like Particle Accelerator™ it would probably catch on.

The last time I looked into FPGA programming (probably back when I was in college), the cheap eval hardware cost at least a few hundred dollars a board, if not a few thousand.

Not sure when you were in college, but we used FPGAs in my upper level computer engineering courses, circa 2006, and the Xilinx dev boards we used were about $120.