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I'm of the opinion they should add FPGAs to everything. Every chip now has an insane amount of die area dedicated to the northbridge or the L3 cache. Anything else turns the junk we buy into garbage the moment everyone switches to a new standard.

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Aren’t FPGAs slower than ASICs though?

That depends a bit on whether you count the fabrication time for a new ASIC towards the application startup time when switching applications or not.

Certainly propagation delay is higher. But for many applications it is cheaper to implement them in software than ASICs.

And besides, FPGAs are used for web scale applications, many of them applicable to small computers.

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