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They did not ignore the low end by choice. The entire story of Altera inside Intel can be summarized as: Intel fabs make amazing promises about process perfor
by Tuna-Fish 3y ago
They did not ignore the low end by choice.
The entire story of Altera inside Intel can be summarized as:
Intel fabs make amazing promises about process performance and availability. Altera builds their product stack on that. In the end, the fabs fail to deliver either performance, or sufficient amount of manufacturing capability. Now Altera has to pick which products they want to ship. They obviously can the low end. Even the high end that ships is horribly late, because of manufacturing issues.
There would have been massive demand for the combined Intel+Altera products. Many large customers built their future based on the marketing promises Intel made, and when they couldn't deliver, those customers had to redevelop everything on something else. As an example, look up Nokia Reefshark.
- eqvinox 3y agoDo you have some citable sources for this? It sounds like it might very well be true, but, well, …
- re-thc 3y agoIt was widely reported, e.g. https://www.semiaccurate.com/2019/09/23/altera-releases-stratix-fpgas-years-late/ https://www.semiaccurate.com/2019/09/23/altera-releases-stra...
- yarg 3y agoAny use at NVidia for that tech? If the biggest problem is process, Altera should be shopping around for a company with an in on manufacturing at TSMC. (I doubt AMD's an option, since they already subsumed Xilinx.)
- oscillonoscope 3y agoI've had Intel sales people tell me that the entire low end of some their marketed FPGA/ASIC products have never and likely will never be sold