I hope Intel puts their weight into FPGA now instead of just seeing this as taking out a potential (future) competitor. IMO the technology has a lot of premise, especially in HPC where hardware often gets very specific tasks, so general purpose chips are a waste.
Edit: It looks like they've already been pursuing this, I wasn't aware of Xeon+FPGA pairings yet: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-...