Intel® QuickAssist Technology

[Sabre]

Intel article

Accelerator innovation—increasing power efficiency and performance. Growing demand for performance has led to the development of high-bandwidth and low-latency accelerators.

Intel® QuickAssist Technology supports these industry solutions, including:
Accelerated performance for demanding applications with Front Side Bus attached Field Programmable Gate Array (FSB-FPGA) hardware modules.

Agility to migrate from one technology to another with minimum impact to applications with Intel QuickAssist Technology Accelerator Abstraction Layer (AAL).

Support for small form factor accelerators with emerging technology codenamed "Tolapai" that combines numerous powerful enabling technology on a single chip.

Broad sweeping accelerator improvements with protocol and speed improvements to PCI Express* 2.0 initially proposed by Intel and IBM (called Geneseo*). PCI Express* 3.0 is expected to be the PCI-SIG's response to this proposal and will improve accelerator efficiency and double delivered bandwidth to 8GT/s.

Packet Processing with Intel® Multi-Core Processors
Intel QuickAssist Technology FSB-FPGA Accelerator Architecture

[complacent]

that's pretty fookin' sick.

[Sabre]

Ya, with having a FPGA have direct access to the FSB... you can do some REALLY cool things