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1 year agoApril 1st, right?
A write once FPGA is basically called an ASIC. And yes, Intel does ASICs...
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/overview.html
Write once (antifuse based) FPGA or CPLD devices are not very common anymore.
Intel/Altera does offer devices (MAX, MAX2, MAX5, MAX10 series for example) that store the configuration in internal EEPROM cells so they are basically instant on, and don't need to load a configuration serially from an external EEPROM device.
They are not write once, they can be reprogrammed hundreds of times. They do offer security fuse protection to prevent readback.