Items tagged with fpga

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 14, 2022

AMD Completes Xilinx Acquisition And Details Huge Market Expansion Opportunity

AMD has completed its acquisition of Xilinx, a heavy-hitter in field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs, in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. Announced in October 2020, the deal took a little bit longer than AMD anticipated, with the company originally anticipating a December 2021 closing. But now... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 10, 2022

AMD's $35B FPGA Chip Power Move To Acquire Xilinx Just Cleared All Regulatory Hurdles

There are no more regulatory roadblocks standing in the way of AMD acquiring Xilinx, a powerhouse in field programmable chip array (FPGA) designs, in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. Announced back in October 2020, the deal immediately strengthens AMD's growing product portfolio and comes in the midst... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 31, 2021

AMD's $35B Bid For FPGA Juggernaut Xilinx Hits A Small Regulatory Speed Bump

AMD has given its investors a heads up that its planned acquisition of Xilinx, a powerhouse in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) semiconductors, will not be complete by the end of this year as originally anticipated. Apparently it is taking a bit longer to satisfy regulatory concerns, though AMD says it is making... Read more...

by Ben Funk - Sat, Jan 02, 2021

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services boosting AI performance, an FPGA in the hands of a capable engineer can offload a wide variety of tasks from a CPU and speed... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 09, 2020

AMD Primed To Acquire FPGA Chip Powerhouse Xilinx For Over $30 Billion

You would think yesterday's unveiling of Zen 3 would be AMD's biggest news this week, along with a performance tease of its upcoming Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. Arguably even bigger, however, is that AMD is reportedly in talks to acquire Xilinx, a maker of FPGA (field programmable gate array) chips, for... Read more...

by Ben Funk - Tue, Feb 18, 2020

MiSTer DIY: Accurately Simulating Retro Game Consoles With FPGAs

Fully-assembled MiSTer FPGA DIY console It seems like it wasn't too long ago that we crowned the Raspberry Pi 4 as one of the best retro game consoles around. Indeed, the Raspberry Pi foundation's latest single-board computer still a low-cost DIY powerhouse. However, retro gamers are picky about one thing that haunts... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Facebook Hosts Casting Call For AI Accelerator ASIC And FPGA Chip Designers

While testifying before Congress over the Cambridge Analytical privacy scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly talked about the need to further develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to tackle several of the challenges the company currently faces. Apparently that includes designing its own chips... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 11, 2016

Intel Announces 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA With ARM Cores And Integrated HBM2 Memory

It's taken a few years, but Intel has finally started sampling to customers its Stratix 10, the industry's first 14-nanometer field programmable array (FPGA). This is something chip designer Altera tapped Intel to do back in 2013, though it hit delays along the way. Nevertheless, when Intel acquired Altera last year... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Sep 26, 2016

Intel's Investment In FPGAs Could Pay Dividends In Microsoft Data Centers And Mark The Advent Of AI Accelerators

In June of last year, Intel announced a $16.7B acquisition of chip designer Altera, a Silicon Valley bellwether known for producing FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), PLDs (Programmable Logic Devices), Embedded Processors, and ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits). At the time of the announcement... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Wed, Jun 18, 2014

Hardware Boost: Intel To Offer Custom Xeons With Embedded FPGAs For The Data Center And Enterprise

For years, we've heard rumors that Intel was building custom chips for Google or Facebook, but these deals have always been assumed to work with standard hardware. Intel might offer a different product SKU with non-standard core counts, or a specific TDP target, or a particular amount of cache -- but at the end of the... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Sun, Mar 25, 2012

Nvidia's CEO Bafflingly Suggests Intel Should Fab SoC's For ARM Industry

Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia's CEO, is a canny and intelligent leader who has capably helmed the company through both rough patches and successes, not least of which is the recently launched GTX 680. He's known for strong opinions, but not crazy, off-the-wall statements, which is why his recent remarks regarding Intel are... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Thu, Nov 04, 2010

Intel To Rent 22nm Production To FPGA Manufacturer

Intel made headlines earlier this week when the company announced it would be selling foundry space to FPGA designer/manufacturer Achronix. This isn't the sort of strategic move we normally we see from Intel; the manufacturing giant has been able to avoid licensing its production capacity to other companies in order to meet costs. The Achronix... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Sat, May 08, 2010

Pico Computing Has A $400 Computer That Cracks Veiled Enemy Transmissions

You've probably never heard of Pico Computing, and that's just fine. The company works mostly undercover, out of the line of sight from most citizens. It sounds like a story from a James Bond movie, but the company's execution is real: they're in the business of cracking codes, digging into top secret transmissions... Read more...