After years of posting steady declines, the gate array market appears to be enjoying something of a renaissance as OEMs look for lower-cost alternatives to systems-on-a-chip and programmable logic.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Booted from the high end of the ASIC market by faster, more efficient cell-based chips, and from the low end by increasingly flexible and inexpensive FPGAs, the gate array is ...