largest FPGAs have on the order of tens of millions of logic cells/elements. They’re not even remotely big enough to emulate these designs except to validate small parts of it at a time and unlike memory chips or GPUs, companies don’t need millions of them to scale infrastructure.
(The chips also cost tens of thousands of dollars each)
alt Hacker News
largest FPGAs have on the order of tens of millions of logic cells/elements. They’re not even remotely big enough to emulate these designs except to validate small parts of it at a time and unlike memory chips or GPUs, companies don’t need millions of them to scale infrastructure.
(The chips also cost tens of thousands of dollars each)