AMDlinx—and now they are one
In October 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, AMD surprised the computer industry by announcing it would acquire FPGA inventor and maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock.
AMDlinx—and now they are one
In October 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, AMD surprised the computer industry by announcing it would acquire FPGA inventor and maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock.
AMDlinx—and now they are one
In October 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, AMD surprised the computer industry by announcing it would acquire FPGA inventor and maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock. Xilinx was founded one year after Altera. In 2015, Intel acquired Altera for $16.8 billion, and its revenue at the time was $1.9 billion; Xilinx’s revenue was $2.4 billion. At … Read more
China okays AMD bid to buy Xilinx
It’s a sweetheart deal
AMD to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion
What happens if you cross an FPGA with a GPU or CPU?
AMD to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion
AMD announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The combination, says AMD, will create the industry’s leading high-performance computing company. AMD believes it will significantly expand AMD’s product portfolio and customer set across diverse growth markets where Xilinx is an established leader. AMD says the transaction will immediately … Read more
Xilinx Vitis AI SDK for inferencing
Automatically complies to FPGA
Is 2019 the year of the biggest Xilinx makes biggest FPGA, the VU19
Last week, we wrote about Cerebras’ giant 8.5-inch chip. And in previous issues, we’ve written about Nvidia’s monster 18.6 billion transistor GPU that is 754 mm2. Well, last week, Xilinx joined the big chip club and announced the expansion of its 16-nm Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include the world’s largest FPGA—the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P. With 35 billion transistors, … Read more
Xilinx — from chips to Socs, to AIBS
Xilinx held its annual Xilinx Developer’s Forum (XDF) in San Jose at the ritzy Fairmount hotel. The place was packed and rightly so because Xilinx had a lot to say. Best known for its FPGA, which its stuck in all kinds of systems and machines, the company has building a broad and deep infrastructure for the past three years beginning … Read more