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I'm definitely not! I'm a hardware designer and I work with FPGAs all the time, for both work and for personal projects. Like with all things, there's a right tool for every job, and I think for modern DL algorithms like Transformers, GPUs and AI ASICs are the better tools. For rapid hard prototyping, or for implementing specialized architectures, FPGAs are far better.



Large fast FPGAs are great but very expensive, small size slow FPGAs are not practical for most solutions, where ARM controllers are used, significantly cheaper.


Cost and practicality are context dependent.




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