With the transition of compute from performance focussed to performance per watt focussed (due to cooling usually being the limiting factor), the niche for the FPGA has almost vanished.
There are very very very few compute tasks where an FPGA solves a problem with better performance per watt than both a CPU and a GPU.
I would bet that emulating a RISC-V program on x64 is far more power efficient than running a RISC-V core on an FPGA for example.
There are very very very few compute tasks where an FPGA solves a problem with better performance per watt than both a CPU and a GPU.
I would bet that emulating a RISC-V program on x64 is far more power efficient than running a RISC-V core on an FPGA for example.