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The FPGA market has been growing in size despite GPGPU taking off. And clock speed difference is closer to 4-5x not 20x. Despite that and the lower area efficiency of FPGAs, there have been price and power competitive FPGA accelerators cards released over the last 5 years. Sure, you're not going to get an A100's performance, but you can get deterministic latency below 5us for something that the A100 would take a minimum of 50us to process. GPGPU isn't ideal for its current use case either so FPGA based designs have a lot of room to work in to get better, application specific accelerators.


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