Microsoft's Interest in FPGAs
Wired Magazine has a great artcile about Micros'ft Catapult; an effort to integrate FPGAs into servers. While originally the FPGA effort was to help Bing; Microsoft wanted one platform for its datacenters. FPGAs are not in Azure, Microsoft's Datacenters.
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/microsoft-bets-future-chip-reprogram-fly/
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