Regardless of whether you think Actel's programmable-logic strategy is prophetic or quixotic, give the company credit for having the courage to swim against the current of today's otherwise-staid and -predictable market. Nearly all other FPGA suppliers, along with a few CPLD vendors, have staked their futures on SRAM-based logic and routing configuration. Conversely, Actel is hinging its hopes for future success on the single-chip technologies: anti-fuse, a vision that only Quick-Logic shares, and flash-memory, which is unique to FPGAs.
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