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How did Intel leverage the acquisition of Altera? And why would it be different for AMD?
by TomVDB 5y ago
How did Intel leverage the acquisition of Altera? And why would it be different for AMD?
- kd913 5y agoThe market and tech is in a completely different position to what it was back then. Xilinx is well ahead of Altera. Xilinx already is extremely profitable in it's current markets already. Xilinx and AMD provide extreme supply overlap, and greater bargaining position with TSMC. AMD can leverage the IP much better within it's own products and vice versa. The times of easy performance wins are gone. Accelerators are the future now. Market is much better suited, software toolkits are better.
- pclmulqdq 5y agoXilinx got ahead because of the intel-altera merger. Stratix V was better than the Xilinx 7 series. Now they are giving Intel the opportunity to catch up. My guess is that AMD bought Xilinx either for fab capacity or for some underlying tech expertise that they needed.
- JonChesterfield 5y agoIntel appears to have squandered it. Strangled in bureaucracy at a guess. Not much sign of the fabled FPGA/x64 hybrid from Intel. AMD + ATI didn't look totally smooth from the outside but the graphics cards are still with us and I'm using an APU as my desktop.