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I'm unsure if this type of merger is good for consumers. Will AMD and Xilinx make better products together, or does competition drive them more efficiently. I
by stripline 6y ago
I'm unsure if this type of merger is good for consumers. Will AMD and Xilinx make better products together, or does competition drive them more efficiently. I tend to believe the latter.
- ip26 6y agoProbably comes down to whether you believe they compete with eachother. If they do compete, net loss in competition may be bad. If they don't, then two smaller companies gained scale & integration opportunities.
- nimish 6y agoConglomerates aren't particularly better for consumers fwiw
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- noisy_boy 6y agoThey don't seem to have a lot of overlap - AMD is mainly in the CPU business and Xilinx seems to be mainly focused on the FPGA space (JP Morgan used their hardware for Monte Carlo simulations[0]). This seems like a good fit. [0]: https://www.hpcwire.com/2011/07/13/jp_morgan_buys_into_fpga_supercomputing/ https://www.hpcwire.com/2011/07/13/jp_morgan_buys_into_fpga_...
- stripline 6y agoThey compete head to head in machine learning applications. Xilinx's latest Versal device added AI engines to accelerate ML further. In a situation where AMD owns Xilinx, I would think they execs would decide not to add those types of features to FPGAs to not compete against their own product. Edit: Actually I'm thinking of Nvidia, with their ML supported by TensorFlow. AMD is lacking here.