Zach Saw's Blog

Before I joined Intel, I've always had this idea in my mind - to have a highspeed FPGA as a coprocessor. I think this is a much better time to propose this solution to the world than it's ever been. With the buzz going around Larrabee and its need for a fixed function unit such as the rasterization unit for GPU, it would be so much more flexible if this is implemented as a block of FPGA. The driver is then responsible for converting this block into whatever the application sees fit. Anything that could not fit in that cGPU paradigm can be hardware accelerated via the FPGA block.

Any take on this, Intel?