This is the second in series of interviews we will do with executives inside the fabless semiconductor ecosystem. Geoff Tate was the founding CEO of Rambus and is now CEO and co-founder of Flex Logix (embedded FPGA). This one should be of great interest due to the recent $16.7B acquisition of Altera by Intel. We all now know the importance of having programmable logic inside data center chips but what about networking, automotive, AI, and IoT chips? And do you really have to pay $16.7B to have it?