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I guess FPGA tech moves pretty slowly.

People keep trying:

http://www.pldworld.com/html/technote/FPGA-startups-stare-do...

Oh Tabula, how I rooted for thee. Note, the graph is misleading as C-switch pivoted away from FPGAs way before Tabula died.

It is remarkable how difficult it is to establish a new FPGA company. I'd say Achronix seems to be doing well, but even they had to pivot from their origin (async FPGAs)

Didn't Achronix have some relationship with Intel? I thought they bought them, but I guess not..

Actel->Microsemi->Microchip is still going. Their PolarFire FPGAs are competitive with Lattice for sure, seem to have better MIPI support than Crosslink.

> Didn't Achronix have some relationship with Intel? I thought they bought them, but I guess not..

They had some manufacturing agreement with Intel, but I have no idea if anything came out of it.

Edit: https://www.eetimes.com/intel-to-fab-fpgas-for-startup-achro...

I am guessing this work didn't end, its just in the dark world. I would really love to work with a 2-3 ghz dynamically reconfigurable FPGA. I wonder if we will see them in a public setting any time soon. It seems the foundation is there.

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