>> This is the part I don't get. Mounting more chips on a board costs 
>> money, but making an ASIC costs orders of magnitude *more* money.
> 
> It really doesn't. When I was in college, the guys learning how to do 
> this had runs of 10 chips at a time at a fab to test out their designs. 
> It's really not as expensive as you think.

I thought the whole idea of FPGAs is that you don't have to spend 
$80,000 on a run of ASICs just to see if it works...

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