There is also a cost advantage with fpgas until you get into high volumes. The fact of the matter is FPGAs are on 90nm technology now, and will compete head to head with ASIC on a 0.25 micron fab. Most ASIC starts can get away with less than bleeding edge geometries, so that will tend to lessen the gap between the performance of an FPGA vs performance of an ASIC done with the coarsest geometry that wil get the job done.
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