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thesz on March 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp

And yet they (GPUs) aren't (better for FLOP/watt than FPGA) everywhere.

GPUs have very particular cache and computation hierarchy which is not necessarily a best/good fit for all problems that are being thrown at them.

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