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Altera and Xilinx continued unchallenged and quickly grew from 1985 to the mid-1990s when competitors sprouted up, eroding a significant portion of their market share. By 1993, Actel (later [[Microsemi]], now [[Microchip Technology|Microchip]]) was serving about 18 percent of the market.<ref name="four" />

The 1990s were a period of rapid growth for FPGAs, both in circuit sophistication and the volume of production. In the early 1990s, FPGAs were primarily used in [[telecommunicationtelecommunications]]s and [[Computer network|networking]]. By the end of the decade, FPGAs found their way into consumer, automotive, and industrial applications.<ref name="Maxfield">{{cite book |last = Maxfield |first = Clive| title = The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs: Devices, Tools and Flows| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOadcQAACAAJ&pg=PA4| year = 2004| publisher = Elsevier| isbn = 978-0-7506-7604-5| page = 4}}</ref>

By 2013, Altera (31 percent), Actel (10 percent) and Xilinx (36 percent) together represented approximately 77 percent of the FPGA market.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourcetech411.com/2013/04/top-fpga-companies-for-2013/|title=Top FPGA Companies For 2013|work=sourcetech411.com|date=2013-04-28|access-date=2015-07-08|archive-date=2015-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709173535/http://sourcetech411.com/2013/04/top-fpga-companies-for-2013/|url-status=dead}}</ref>