Intel has acquired Altera a year ago and plans processors with included some FPGA:
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/03/...ompute-future/
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~calcm/carl/...rl15-gupta.pdf
It should be also a big speedup for data compression indeed ...
However, FPGA has usually much lower frequency, but can parallelize multiple tasks.