[phendrenad2]

It seems to me that there are exactly 3 buyers for FPGAs: Government contractors (who spend millions all at once), retro gamers (small market), and electronics hobbyists (another small market). It's no wonder every company has orientated itself towards the first one. I look to China to accidentally make chips that are an order of magnitude better "just because they can".

[lvoudour]

You forget network infrastructure, high frequency trading, ASIC prototyping and emulation. These are not hobbyist or government markets

[phendrenad2]

True but they behave exactly like government markets ("no price is too high") so I don't quite understand why the comment.