They've grown beyond prototyping a long time ago. They are full featured SoCs with great flexibility that fill niches where CPUs, GPUs, ASICs can't compete in flexibility/power consumption/development cost.
- ASICs are too rigid and require high volumes to be profitable
- GPUs are too power hungry
- CPUs are not good for massively parallel processing
FPGAs are heavily used in industrial/military/aerospace applications
- ASICs are too rigid and require high volumes to be profitable
- GPUs are too power hungry
- CPUs are not good for massively parallel processing
FPGAs are heavily used in industrial/military/aerospace applications