<i>Q: Would you use today something like FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) for such systems?</i><p>He answers the question by basically saying, "No, if we started today, we'd never be able to compete with Nvidia and ATI." However, there <i>is</i> a group today trying to create a new graphics card from scratch, and it turns out their first step was indeed to create a big FPGA card:<p><a href="http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php</a>