Summary - Intel buys FPGA manufacturer, Microsoft is trying to use FPGAs with Intel processors to make Bing faster.

Kudos to Bunnie for actually already producing a laptop that pairs a CPU and an FPGA on the same board, and making it free and open source:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

He makes the big guys look like a bunch of johnny-come-latelys

When Intel applies their process knowledge to manufacturing FPGAs, they could really boost the capability of these chips and slash prices aggressively.

Now if only they could improve the tooling.