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What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry? (lemmy.world)
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Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

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[–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There are a load of things in IT where using a processor is the wrong choice, and using an FPGA instead would have made a lot of problems a non-issue.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Is that controversial? I've always assumed people avoid FPGAs just because they're unfamiliar with them.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Tell that to the people who think they will soon replace this expensive and complicated FPGA stuff with something running on a cheap MPU programmed by an intern. For thirty years now...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think it’s because FPGAs are an intermediate to just making your own ASIC.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    If you're at a scale where making a new ASIC is your go-to, congratulations on your job at Google or Apple. I don't even know if FaceMeta would do that. Designing and founding a new chip is a whole thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I wish FPGAs and other more purpose built and purpose suited options were available in my IT equipment. They can do amazing shit, better and more efficiently. Just wasn't ever available to use for me at least.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    One problem is that programming an FPGA is a rare skill. A lot of even good programmers simply don't get their heads around how they tick.

    Coming from a digital hardware background, an FPGA was amazingly straightforward, so I'm one of the rare breeds who does both FPGAs and microprocessors.

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