> There are some questions making me wonder what is more likely between an FPGA, Arm Cortex (or other RISC), or a fully nonprogrammable IC being most successful

> There are some questions making me wonder what is more likely between an FPGA, Arm Cortex (or other RISC), or a fully nonprogrammable IC being most successfully deployed in a flexible form factor: I believe it will be some display driver IC for the fad flexible displays. RFID cards are flexible, but they just use the most tiny chips possible. Even tiniest chips made with relatively recent IC tech will blow any printed electronics out of water.