What I'd really like to see is another manufacturer launching an FPGA that uses the same bitstream format (and hence the same general architecture) as the iCE40 or ECP5 series.<p>Then we'd have a proper open platform! Remember the "good old days" when chips were second-sourced? (And third- and fourth- sourced for the really popular ones: Intel's 8086/8088 come to mind here.)