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To judge by anything on the record, you would think nobody at Intel has much love for anything asynchronous, but it's worth keeping in mind that Intel funded an
by gradschool 8y ago
To judge by anything on the record, you would think nobody at Intel
has much love for anything asynchronous, but it's worth keeping in
mind that Intel funded and later acquired a startup called
Asynchronous Design Technology, later renamed Fulcrum Microsystems, to
the tune of something like $100 million all together, and then let it
slip under the radar. Last I checked its domain had been taken over by
a tech blog. People from Intel have also usually put in an appearance at
the IEEE Asynchronous conferences over the years. I'd venture to guess
they know a thing or two about async at Intel but it's fine with them
if the rest of us don't.
- wnoise 8y agoThe prior name of Fulcrum Microsystems was Asynchronous Digital Design, not Design Technology. They fairly quickly decided that ADD was an unfortunate acronym...
- gradschool 8y agoI stand corrected. Thank you.
- slongfield 8y agoFulcrum didn't slip under the radar, it was purchased by Intel in 2011[1]. Since then, Intel's switch and router division have had their part numbers start with "FM". [1] https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-to-acquire-fulcrum-microsystems/ https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-to-acquire-fu... [2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products-and-solutions/networking-and-io/switches-and-routers.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products-and-...