Re: "We will apply Moore's Law to grow today's FPGA business"
"Really, you think that they will be either standard CPUs or an ASIC they got right first time and has no need for updates due to bugs and litigation-induced changes?"
Maybe they'll also invent some kind of semi-permanent but updateable software - they could call it "firmware" and update that on the fly?
You don't need to re-wire a chip to make it do different things. The connected sensors and hardware will still be the same.