Not sure I follow. Shuttle service costs for small runs of silicon are, for most people in most situations, tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum. My argum

Not sure I follow. Shuttle service costs for small runs of silicon are, for most people in most situations, tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum. My argument is that if the price dropped to the point where it was competitive with FPGAs at prototype scale (eg, 10 parts might cost $1000 but not $10000) then you would see parts on the market built that way quite quickly. I think the proof for that is the number of low volume commercial parts (HSMs, LTE base stations, etc) which carry FPGAs today. Seems the market has already spoken?