Comment by phendrenad2
2 days ago
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".
You forget network infrastructure, high frequency trading, ASIC prototyping and emulation. These are not hobbyist or government markets
True but they behave exactly like government markets ("no price is too high") so I don't quite understand why the comment.