The future of FPGAs
After the wave of acquisitions, we are entering an era of heterogeneous data processing platforms. This platform will include SmartNIC, multi-core processors and hardware accelerators. Users will have to choose a complete solution instead of a mashup. Intel, AMD and Nvidia will provide a complete computing platform, including their own proprietary accelerators and smart chips. The benefits of this may be easier deployment and better integration, but choosing each of the best options will no longer be feasible, such as choosing Xilinx FPGAs , Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia GPUs . For Intel and AMD, it will be difficult to promote FPGAs in the field of deep learning, and other platforms will appear under their own brands. Perhaps FPGAs will be mainly used in their basic markets (networks and telecommunications, such as vRAN and 5G), while GPU, asic and other platforms will be promoted for deep learning. The main advantage of FPGAs is programmability and can support custom archite...