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To: ToolManInc who wrote (3992)	9/23/2000 4:42:47 PM
From: Tom Shutters	Read Replies (1) of 4005

This has been a really dirty deal by Actel to acquire Gatefield technology at a less than fair price. And, Gatefield management goes along with the deal with promises of gold lining their pockets. First they cut the Gatefield news releases off and then they set a ceiling on the price by offering $5.25 per share. Meanwhile the technology keeps rolling but the crooks are at work behind the scenes concealing the exciting truth about this great technology. Take a look at this excerpt from the following article. "PLD Vendors Enter Embedded Control Turf -- Processor-based designs are enabling PLD suppliers to explore new worlds." ...Actel will use the company's reconfigurable SRAM-based FPGA cores to offer a range of blocks at densities of 5,000 to 35,000 ASIC-like gates. Tool support will present a major obstacle in this market and played an important role in Actel's selection of ProSys technology. The Prosys devices are supported by a set of software tools that follow the same ASIC design methodologies and design flows used to integrate cores into standard-cell designs." "Also key to Actel's strategy was its decision to buy the remaining shares of Gatefield Corp., a Fremont, Calif., developer of ASIC-like flash technology-based FPGAs. The two companies have a longstanding relationship." "In August 1998, Actel invested $3 million to buy the exclusive rights to market and sell ProASIC devices manufactured at 0.25-micron and below. About a year later, Actel invested another $8 million in the struggling start-up." "Gatefield's ProASIC technology offers nonvolatile reprogrammability as well as a highly efficient, fine-grained structure that offers high gate counts at lower costs than traditional SRAM-based FPGAs." "InSearch Research estimates that as much as half the applications in the embedded-FPGA market will eventually use flash technology. Actel is already working on embedding flash cells into a next-generation CMOS process."... techweb.com

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