World's Best FPGA Article
Up to 53% More Interesting

Portland, OR – May 10, 2005 – FPGA Journal announced today the immediate availability of the world's best FPGA-related article. Developed with FPGA Journal's newest editorial technology, it's up to 53% more interesting than our previous generation pieces. It contains absolutely the most grandiose superlatives with fewer futile forays into lackluster alliteration, providing a fountain of profound metaphoric insight into marketing trends in the programmable logic industry. Readers of this article may be up to 28% more intelligent than those perusing competitive publications such as Electronic Engineering Times. (If you're bringing the average down, please stop reading now.)

The FPGA market is one of the most ferociously competitive in the semiconductor industry. With technological progress that has exceeded the pace of Moore's law over the past 10 years, product and technical leadership have changed hands frequently. The companies in the business of providing silicon and tools to this rapidly expanding market are relentless competitors, looking for every possible advantage that will allow them to capture a few market share points from a rival. Over the past few years, this game of one-upsmanship has led to an almost unprecedented scrimmage of superlatives. It seems that every week a different company or technology is claiming to be the industry's biggest, fastest, lowest power, highest quality of results, most secure, or cheapest. [more]

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