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Off topic: Is this a good time to buy Xilinx shares? I seem to hear their name, and talk about synthesis every week on here now.
by unixhero 7y ago
Off topic: Is this a good time to buy Xilinx shares? I seem to hear their name, and talk about synthesis every week on here now.
- unlinked_dll 7y agoChip stocks are soaring, so no. They’re coming due for a market correction. There’s also a lot of volatility these days since all chip stocks rise and fall with trade news related to China. If you know or have faith that the trade tensions between the West and China are going to be resolved in the near future, buy. If you don’t, stay away.
- DoingIsLearning 7y agoFPGA's will (likely) always be a niche. Xilinx/Altera/Lattice have never found a real high volume mass market. Xilinx for example is trying to push for cloud storage and AI applications but the reality is that if your are not worried about power consumption, then the development time/cost will be far less if you just use a GPU+CPU instead. Unless you are doing nanosecond high criticality i/o or signal processing that benefits from high parallelization then FPGA's are probably overengineering.