[ohazi]

Lattice is inching towards kinda sorta cheering them on, even though they won't openly admit it yet. They've been an underdog after Xilinx and Altera/Intel for a long time, but have gained a ton of popularity on hobbyist dev boards since Yosys showed up (search twitter for "tinyfpga" "icebreaker" "ecp5" etc. if you want examples).

The hobbyists playing with these boards at home are now more familiar with the parts and the tools, and there's also enough data comparing synthesis results between the open-source and proprietary tools with non-trivial designs that it's getting easier to predict performance (and be confident that the fitter won't crash).

Anecdotally, a lot of these hobbyists are now pushing to use Lattice parts at work, where appropriate.