Being modest, I hate to say "I told you so", but
LSI scraps ASIC line, plans to sell DSP unit
seems consistent with the doubts about RapidChip that I expressed in
this post in July 2005.
Is there a stampede for the doors?
A pioneer in the field of "structured ASIC", Lightspeed Semiconductor,
exited the market just last month.
Too bad, I was sort of longing for the simple days of yesteryear when we did Gate Arrays, and these products resembled re-warmed Gate (or Embedded) Arrays.
Good vision. I also remember the structured ASIC buzz. At that time it sounded like innovative. But as you point out, "for what applications?". ASIC mean Application Specific, Structured ASIC makes things confusing.
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