After years of posting steady declines, the gate array market appears to be enjoying something of a renaissance as OEMs look for lower-cost alternatives to systems-on-a-chip and programmable logic.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — ASIC-based gate array vendors have for years been easy targets for makers of field-programmable gate arrays. But AMI Semiconductor wants to prove that gate array vendors can learn ...

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