Is the Future CPU+GPU or CPU+FPGA?

"At SC15, IBM, in turn, announced new offerings centered "on the tight integration of IBM's Power processors with accelerators." But it was an announcement about IBM's interest in FPGAs that attracted attention. It has concluded a multi-year strategic collaboration with Xilinx to develop FPGA-enabled workload acceleration on Power-based systems. Through a private commercial agreement as well as by collaboration through the Open Power Foundation, the two companies are teaming up to develop open acceleration infrastructures, software, and middleware.

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