[mhh__]

It might not be visible from a regular programmers' perspective (i.e. You don't need to read https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf to write a website) but FPGAs are absoutely everywhere already, e.g. Xilinx (the Intel of the FPGA market... as opposed to Intel who are the AMD of the FPGA market) have Market Cap of $21Bn which is quite a lot for a company that is both fairly obscure to investors and doesn't sell directly to consumers.

The issue with this is that FPGAs are expensive to buy as a hobbyist, expensive to buy at small quantities unless you can negotiate with Avnet or similar, and involve using software from the past if you want to program them.

Beyond FPGAs, ASICs are fairly common in very high margin/high volume electronics.

[saagarjha]

Note that Intel bought the AMD of the FPGA market to enter it ;)