Re: [math-fun] Intel to incorporate FPGA in new Xeon processor

We are integrating our industry leading Xeon processor with a coherent FPGA in a single package, socket compatible to our standard Xeon E5 processor offerings.

In the late sixties there was an announcement by DEC of a PDP-6 with programmable firmware. At least, I think that is what it must have been because what I recall is Gosper's response: if you had that, why would you want it to be a PDP-6. My response to this is the same. If you have a CPU with an FPGA, why do you need anything more than a primitive processor to manage the programming of the FPGA. Could you not get rid of much of the legacy processor which, I assume, is most of the Xeon. Whit