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Intel teases 'software-defined silicon' with Linux kernel contribution – and won't say why

eldakka
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Re: The start of licensed instructions

Based on the headline alone, I immediately jumped to FPGAs. Maybe Intel was bringing FPGAs more mainstream, and it could be used in things like hardware video decoders/encoders, so taht you'd have an FPGA rather than a fixed function de/encoder, and on the fly reconfigure it to the appropriate capabilities.

But no. My heart sank the more I read the article.

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