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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 [[telecommunications]] 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), ActelXilinx (1036 percent) and XilinxActel (3610 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>

Companies like Microsoft have started to use FPGAs to accelerate high-performance, computationally intensive systems (like the [[data center]]s that operate their [[Bing search engine]]), due to the [[performance per watt]] advantage FPGAs deliver.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/06/microsoft-fpga/|title=Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips|date=16 June 2014|magazine=WIRED}}</ref> Microsoft began using FPGAs to [[Hardware acceleration|accelerate]] Bing in 2014, and in 2018 began deploying FPGAs across other data center workloads for their [[Microsoft Azure|Azure]] [[cloud computing]] platform.<ref name="ProjCatapult" />