Items tagged with Xilinx

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 Brittany Goetting - Tue, Oct 27, 2020

AMD Confirms $35 Billion Xilinx Acquisition As It Transforms Into Data Center Superpower

2020 has been a year marked by a few major tech acquisitions and AMD has recently jumped on this trend. AMD just announced that it will acquire Xilinx for $35 billion USD. This acquisition increases AMD’s total addressable market (TAM) to $110 billion. Rumors about AMD’s acquisition of Xilinix had been swirling... 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 Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 08, 2016

Chip Partners ARM And TSMC Make 7nm FinFET IP Available For Next Generation SoCs

ARM and TSMC have become quite the duo over the years, combining the latter's cutting-edge process technologies with the former's processor IP. It is a partnership that has been working, hence why the two committed earlier this year to collaborating on a marketable 7nm FinFET chip. The fruits of their efforts have... 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...