FPGA-Based Arduino in the “MKR” form factor (opens in new tab)

Sounds like they are planning on having an app store with pre-built cores that you can load into the FPGA depending on what functionality you want. It's a pretty good model and Arduino isn't the first to try it, hopefully it works well. My guess is that normal users will mostly stick to configurable pre-built cores and knowledgeable users will probably use more heavy duty tools if they wanna build their own.

The hardware they've announced is absolutely loaded with features with an ARM uC, a dual core ESP32, a crypto accelerator and the Altera/Intel FPGA; hopefully they can keep the price reasonable. I wonder if they cut a deal with Intel to help subsidize the cost, since Intel just announced their new Xeon chips with FPGAs. I expect I'll buy one as long as it's under about $75. Only problem I can really see is that it doesn't have that many pins exposed, but that's not a huge issue.

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/18/arduino-just-introduced-an-f...

The article mentions every other chip but fails to mention Intel name. It just skips with "based on an FPGA chip". Why?

They call out every other chip with excruciating detail. This bothers me.

Are the Cyclone development tools open source?

I kind of like the idea of an FPGA-based Arduino, but I definitely wouldn't like them moving to closed source software.