FPGAs are temporary implementation detail

Posted Aug 27, 2015 2:09 UTC (Thu) by michaelkjohnson (subscriber, #41438)
Parent article: A look at The Machine

Keith said that the FPGAs being used are not a design element (say, to allow dynamic reprogramming of The Machine), but are a development detail expected to be replaced by ASICs in production. [My summary, not his words.]