The Configware Rush. Makimoto observed in 1986, that mainstream microchip application changes every ten years: what's called "Makimoto's Wave". He predicted, that the "third wave" will bring reconfigurable hardware into mainstream. "Makimoto's third wave has been started". The Configware Rush is taking off right now, portraying the microprocessor as a methusela. (Software as we know it can run only sequential programs on von-Neumann-type hardware. But software cannot be used for the spatial programming of reconfigurable hardware, where a different programming medium is needed: "configware". Software is based on instruction fetch during run time, whereas configware determines (kind of) "instruction fetch" before run time: drastically more powerful complex "instructions" by configuring powerful soft datapaths, where at run time only data streams are piped through, but no instruction streams. See [3], or, introduction in [4], [5]. - Already now reconfigurable integrated circuits like FPGAs are a rapidly growing multi billion dollar market, making ASICs disappear within a few years. See [6], [7]. Analysts predict around $50 billion per year by end of this decade.)       --- [ from press release - deutsch  - configware]