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They acquired Altera in 2015, which in the tech world is when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. How much more time would they need to see a profitable synergy? Be
by contrarian1234 3y ago
They acquired Altera in 2015, which in the tech world is when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. How much more time would they need to see a profitable synergy? Bearing in mind they can probably see what's in the pipeline for the next couple of years.
I'm not an expert... But in my naiive opinion it seems entirely reasonable to expect an acquisition to start paying off within ten years?
Would love to hear counterexamples
- crote 3y agoA big issue is that sticking an FPGA onto the CPU die itself doesn't really make sense. Those are some really expensive transistors, and you're essentially wasting them when they are not being used for cores or cache. Besides, you'd be spending significant amounts of money building a niche product. It would be a lot more viable to use a chiplet approach: bake the FPGAs on a slightly-cheaper node, and just glue them right next to the CPU itself. Unfortunately Intel is still miles behind AMD when it comes to chiplets, and their tech is only just now barely starting to ship.