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Yeah it was really funny watching Intel buy Altera at the same time that they were spinning out McAfee and thinking “well we’ll see how long this lasts…” Big c
by SilverBirch 3y ago
Yeah it was really funny watching Intel buy Altera at the same time that they were spinning out McAfee and thinking “well we’ll see how long this lasts…”
Big chunk of the team from Altera are at AMD now anyway.
Hopefully they finally get back to innovating on the actual FPGA now. I’m so tired of the hardened rubbish and cpu integrated rubbish.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> I’m so tired of the hardened rubbish and cpu integrated rubbish. Was there actually a way to access a CPU-integrated FPGA as an "ordinary" user/customer (i.e. not a "special customer")?
- the_pwner224 3y agoYes, the Zynq MPSoCs are widely available on Digikey, Mouser, etc. Both the bare chips as well as dev boards (Avnet ZedBoard, Trenz, and the Xilinx first party dev boards too). Even Versal is available, you can buy a VCK190 (albeit with a long lead time and it's over $10k) and Trenz has some much cheaper stuff which will be more generally available in the near future.
- SilverBirch 3y agoNo, because they screwed up the tapeout of EMIB (they literally didn't even test it), and the value proposition was terrible - hey guys how do you fancy an Intel Xeon with some FPGA fabric on it - it's really exciting, all you do is you turn off a couple of your cores to reduce the CPU power consumption and then you can turn on 10k LUTs!