Microsoft Knows Exactly Where Intel's Future Is(wired.com)

8 pointsby redknight66611 ปีที่แล้ว2 comments

Microsoft Knows Exactly Where Intel's Future Is

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/microsoft-knows-exactly-intels-future

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bcg111 ปีที่แล้ว

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

astrodust11 ปีที่แล้ว

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.