Re: New Inflection point in comp arch?

[quote amended]
On 2007-09-28, Shangai Knight <shangahi.knight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can do FPGA or SC asic without many of those tools. But hardware
will always cost more.

You wont get the frequency or the die size needed to implement an > equally performant chip.

Of course. But what's expensive about Chips like Intel's or AMD's CPUs
is not just the tools, but the manufacturing.

Oh, and I dont know if you can implement a cache on an FPGA.

You can buy FPGAs with SRAM on-chip.

Regards,

Florian
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