I do feel Intel if anybody could of pushed FPGA's into consumer space. Heck even if they added a basic small affair onto their chips as standard it would open up software and standards. See you need to software as much as the hardware to drive standards that get adopted as a standard that is not adopted is a swing thru the middle of the tree called a swing.
I hope this pans out well. After all, imagine if your OS could do a few custom instructions in a FPGA as an OS accelerator, offload some of the routines not already enshrined into a dedicated instruction.
I would also add, there is one avenue that may see this pan well, if you can do crytomining upon them - that would certainly be a blessing for all as would get them into mass production, shift the crypto's away from GPU's and much good would come from it. That's the optimistic hope how we will get some FPGA's into the standard CPU/SOC offerings in much the same way the FPU was a separate chip at one stage in CPU life.
I hope this pans out well. After all, imagine if your OS could do a few custom instructions in a FPGA as an OS accelerator, offload some of the routines not already enshrined into a dedicated instruction.
I would also add, there is one avenue that may see this pan well, if you can do crytomining upon them - that would certainly be a blessing for all as would get them into mass production, shift the crypto's away from GPU's and much good would come from it. That's the optimistic hope how we will get some FPGA's into the standard CPU/SOC offerings in much the same way the FPU was a separate chip at one stage in CPU life.