FPGAs
Intel this afternoon has announced that the company will be spinning off its programmable solutions group (PSG), to operate as a standalone business. The business unit, responsible for developing Intel’s Agilex, Stratix, and other FPGA products, will become a standalone entity under Intel’s corporate umbrella starting in Q1 of 2024, with the long-term goal of eventually selling off part of the group in an IPO in two to three years’ time. The reorganization announced today will see Intel’s PSG transition to operating as a standalone business unit at the start of 2024, with Intel EVP Sandra Rivera heading up PSG as its new CEO. Rivera is currently the general manager of Intel’s Data Center and AI Group (DCAI), which is where PSG is currently housed...
Update: AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go, Deal Closes At $49B
Update 02/14: AMD has sent out a brief statement this morning announcing that the Xilinx deal has formally closed. AMD has now fully acquired Xilinx. The final value of...
34 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2022
AMD-Xilinx Acquisition Now Expected to Close in Q1 of 2022
AMD this afternoon has sent out a brief update to the public and investors, offering an update on the status of the ongoing Xilinx acquisition. AMD’s purchase of the...
28 by Ryan Smith on 12/30/2021
An AnandTech Interview with Jim Anderson, CEO of Lattice Semiconductor
In our coverage of the semiconductor space, we typically think of two main vectors of hardware – the CPU and the GPU. Beyond that, we look at FPGAs, microcontrollers...
13 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2021-page-036a_carousel.jpg)
Xilinx Expands Versal AI to the Edge: Helping Solve the Silicon Shortage
Today Xilinx is announcing an expansion to its Versal family, focused specifically on low power and edge devices. Xilinx Versal is the productization of a combination of many different...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/9/2021
Intel’s New eASIC N5X Series: Hardened Security for 5G and AI Through Structured ASICs
The programmability of a processor is a scale is all about flexibility and performance – something highly programmable and customizable is adaptable to all sort of situations, but often...
6 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/24/2020
MediaTek Subsidiary to Acquire Intel Enpirion Business for $85 Million
Today an agreement between MediaTek subsidiary Richtek and Intel has been made for Richtek to acquire Intel’s power management solutions and controller product line known as Enpirion. The agreement...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/18/2020
Bittware 4x100G FPGA Card, Uses Intel 10nm Agilex and oneAPI
This week at the annual Supercomputing HPC show, we’re going to see a number of high-profile enterprise announcements across a wide array of industries that support server and high-performance...
8 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2020
AMD in $35 Billion All-Stock Acquisition of Xilinx
After a couple of weeks of rumor, as well as a couple of years of hearsay, AMD has gone feet first into a full acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Xilinx...
100 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/27/2020
Intel’s New 224G PAM4 Transceivers
One battleground in the world of FPGAs is the transceiver – the ability to bring in (or push out) high speed signals onto an FPGA at low power. In...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Xilinx Versal ACAPs (9:00am PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Intel 10nm Agilex FPGAs (8:30am PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/18/2020
Intel’s EMIB Now Between Two High TDP Die: The New Stratix 10 GX 10M FPGA
The best thing about manufacturing Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is that you can make the silicon very big. The nature of the repeatable unit design can absorb issues...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/5/2019
Xilinx Announces World Largest FPGA: Virtex Ultrascale+ VU19P with 9m Cells
We don’t often cover the FPGA market here at AnandTech, but in the past couple of years we have seen the array of features that FPGAs are implementing expand...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/27/2019
Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Xilinx Versal AI Engine
Xilinx, the manufacturer of FPGAs, announced its new Versal AI engine last year as a way of moving FPGAs into the AI domain. This talk is set to expand...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019
Hot Chips 31 (2019) Programme Announced: Zen, Navi, POWER, Lakefield, Gen-Z, Turing, Lisa Su Keynote
There are two trade shows every year that I love. Computex in June is great, because the scale of the industry it covers, and Taipei is a wonderful location...
17 by Ian Cutress on 5/16/2019
Intel Acquires Omnitek: FPGA Video Acceleration and Inferencing
One of the characteristics of Intel is its investment into new IP. This usually takes several forms, such as internal R&D, investing in other companies through Intel Capital, or...
11 by Ian Cutress on 4/16/2019
The AI Race Expands: Qualcomm Reveals “Cloud AI 100” Family of Datacenter AI Inference Accelerators for 2020
This morning at their first AI Day, the 800lb gorilla of the mobile world, Qualcomm announced that they are getting into the AI accelerator market, and in an aggressive...
26 by Ryan Smith on 4/9/2019
Intel Agilex: 10nm FPGAs with PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and CXL
Ever since Intel purchased Altera for an enormous amount of money a few years ago (ed: $16.7B), the FPGA portfolio that has been coming out has largely been a...
12 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019
CXL Specification 1.0 Released: New Industry High-Speed Interconnect From Intel
With the battleground moving from single core performance to multi-core acceleration, a new war is being fought with how data is moved around between different compute resources. The Interconnect...
48 by Ian Cutress on 3/11/2019
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