Gowin
Gowin is a Chinese FPGA manufacturer.
The Gowin Littlebe chips are clearly the price leader in the FPGA market. But there is a very serious bug report they have not responded to. The datasheet lacks critical information; how many resources does it take to build a mux4 or mux32? The github reporitories lack licensing information, putting our projects in legal limbo.
Compared to Gowin, the European made FPGAs are subject to much better environmental and labor laws. Gernany even has labor union representatives on the company boards. If there is a supply disruption, or worse yet another war, good to have local suppliers. And our money should go towards improving European fabs, not asian ones. The money we spend in Europe, gets spent again in Europe, boosting our economies.
And there have been rumours of security issues with their closed source tools, so be sure to use the Open Source Yosys tools with Gowin FPGAs.