Is marriage in the cards for programmable logic, microprocessors and ASICs?

Sinan Kaptanoglu John East Tim Garverick Scott Hauck Tavana Tavana Steven Trimberger Ronnie Vasishta Is marriage in the cards for programmable logic, microprocessors and ASICs? 111 2001 FPGA http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/360276.360313 db/conf/fpga/fpga2001.html#KaptanogluEGHTTV01