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Comment by torginus

Yeah, I have worked with FPGAs a while ago and still casually follow the space.

There have been many attempts of mapping general purpose/GPU programming languages to FPGA and none of them worked out.

The first leading claim they make - that this is a general purpose CPU, capable of executing anything - I suspect is false.

CPUs are hard because they have to interact with memory, basically 95% of CPU design complexity comes from having to interact with memory, and handling other data hazards.

If this was reducible complexity, they'd have done so already.

parent torginus 1 year ago

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