<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aseipp</author><text>These aren&amp;#x27;t the basic VU9x&amp;#x27;s. The specs put them somewhere around the highest end card on that series: the XCVU37P, with 64GB DDR4 and 2.8 million cells&amp;#x2F;7k DSPs.&lt;p&gt;That isn&amp;#x27;t a $2k card attached over fabric... It&amp;#x27;s probably closer to a $40,000 card.</text><parent_chain><item><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>To save you the digging, the chips are Xilink VU9p UltraScale series :  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(retracted, can&amp;#x27;t find exact part on digikey) Quantity 1 pricing is about $2000&amp;#x2F;chip ; however, that price would no doubt drop substantially at even a 1000 chip order.  A typical discount (appears to be) 20% at qty 100; so at qty 1000, maybe 33%?  So 1 of these chips might be $1200 after you figure a bunch of other discounts?&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html#productTable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;^^^ the product table.&lt;p&gt;The XCVU9P is listed as having ~6800 DSP slices, 2,2586K (= ~2.5 million) of system logic cells.  That pretty much matches what Amazon describes as them using.&lt;p&gt;(The DDR-4 RAM is external - so it doesn&amp;#x27;t help narrow down the device.)&lt;p&gt;However there are multiple, very similarly named parts, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem that the XCVU9P is listed on Digikey.  Other parts named UltraScale are - thus the confusion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit</title><url>https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mng2</author><text>That pricing sounds waaaay too low to me; these are big, cutting edge parts, basically unobtainium at the moment unless you have a close relationship with Xilinx. When they reach the channel they will not be cheap either.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;octopart.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=xcvu9p&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;octopart.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=xcvu9p&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>To save you the digging, the chips are Xilink VU9p UltraScale series :  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(retracted, can&amp;#x27;t find exact part on digikey) Quantity 1 pricing is about $2000&amp;#x2F;chip ; however, that price would no doubt drop substantially at even a 1000 chip order.  A typical discount (appears to be) 20% at qty 100; so at qty 1000, maybe 33%?  So 1 of these chips might be $1200 after you figure a bunch of other discounts?&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html#productTable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xilinx.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;silicon-devices&amp;#x2F;fpga&amp;#x2F;virtex-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;^^^ the product table.&lt;p&gt;The XCVU9P is listed as having ~6800 DSP slices, 2,2586K (= ~2.5 million) of system logic cells.  That pretty much matches what Amazon describes as them using.&lt;p&gt;(The DDR-4 RAM is external - so it doesn&amp;#x27;t help narrow down the device.)&lt;p&gt;However there are multiple, very similarly named parts, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem that the XCVU9P is listed on Digikey.  Other parts named UltraScale are - thus the confusion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit</title><url>https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga</url></story>