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The underlying operation of multiplying a shitload of numbers together hasn't changed at all. Google's revisions have essentially been more and way more multipliers, respectively.

The main problem with FPGAs is having to deal with the vendors and their evil tools. Those people have no idea what good software looks like, and no business being in my cloud. I guess if you're Microsoft and you already have demonstrated a 40-year history of having no taste in software then you'd be OK putting FPGA tooling into a datacenter. I personally wouldn't even execute that stuff in a sandbox, much less allow it to reprogram my platform.



Asic tools are very similar to fpga tools. You always simulate on fpga first before sending off the RTL for an asic.




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