OTOH, at least there are second-tier vendors. I haven't been following FPGA development, and I thought there's just ALTERA and Xilinx. Do you know any others?
http://www.atmel.com/products/other/field_programmable_gate_...
I seem to remember that they had some early 8051 and possibly even AVR devices that had some programmable logic blocks on board too.
This reminded me of a cool video I watched the other day, so I made a new post about it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9486128