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> Most acquisitions of FPGA companies > any example of a FPGA provider Are there lots of FPGA companies that have gotten acquired in the first place? Only Alt
by dataflow 6y ago
> Most acquisitions of FPGA companies
> any example of a FPGA provider
Are there lots of FPGA companies that have gotten acquired in the first place? Only Altera comes to my mind.
- monocasa 6y agoAtmel had some FPGAs when acquired by Microchip. Albeit Microchip is sort of where chip families go to die, so I wouldn't draw a trend from that. Would the Xilinx/AMD acquisition make Lattice the biggest independent FPGA vendor?
- duskwuff 6y agoMany of Lattice's FPGAs were acquisitions as well. The iCE series came from SiliconBlue; ECP5 came from Silicon Image.
- fridif 6y agoAltera and Xilinx are the only two FPGAs out there ;)
- sigstoat 6y agolattice?
- WillSlim95 6y agoUh at the high end there is Achronix and then the lower end you have Microchip(ex Microsemi(ex-Actel) and Lattice, Efinx and there are a couple of Chinese startups.
- lnsru 6y agoActel was acquired by Microsemi that was acquired by Microchip.
- Ballas 6y agoIn my opinion they have only gotten better. That said - my opinion of Actel was pretty close to the floor.
- lnsru 6y agoFrom my current perspective Actel was ok for its time. I worked with APA150 FPGAs in the past and for that ancient time it was ok. I heard, Microchip has cool SoC with RISC-V nowadays. I just don’t have time to play with them after work.