They claim something impressive ("Translate Wikipedia in less than a Tenth of a Second") but give no details about the task nor the system.
If the claim is not total marketing nonsense I would imply that they mean t ranslating from one language to another (e.g. English to German).
From the article link (and the picture) you could also imply that one FPGA (or the card in the hand of the guy) does this. But this is simply unbeliev able. So the question is: How many FPGAs are involved? With out this, the c laimed time is simply not meaningful, as double the number of FPGA will mea n half the time (every Wikipedia article can be translated individually, so it is easy to execute the task in parallel...).
But I guess this is all not Microsoft's fault, but the problem of that spec ific link. I found following which gives much more insight at the end of th e page:
There it says that 4 FPGAs (Stratix V D5, ca. 500k LE) would require 4 hour s to translate Wikipedia. The 0.1 seconds are achieved with a huge cloud of such FPGA equipped systems...
Of course still impressive, but not the same as most people might think aft er reading the headline. (And it also makes me wonder about the future of t he Altera/Intel low cost FPGAs, when to want to sell a Stratix into every s erver...)
Regards,
Thomas