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A few things that I noticed in passing: - Intel’s divesting from Altera; - Intel seems to be eschewing the consumer device/computer market for more B2B custom
by nxobject 2y ago
A few things that I noticed in passing:
- Intel’s divesting from Altera;
- Intel seems to be eschewing the consumer device/computer market for more B2B custom collaborations, e.g. with AWS and hinted later on.
A lot of retrenchment from Intel. Once Foundry’s no longer embarrassing to Intel, though, what’s their plan for anticipating the future?
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- duskwuff 2y ago> - Intel’s divesting from Altera; That's been in the works since last year. https://www.eejournal.com/article/intel-plans-to-spin-off-fpga-group-as-an-independent-company-nine-years-after-buying-altera/ https://www.eejournal.com/article/intel-plans-to-spin-off-fp...
- ecshafer 2y agoAltera has been known but its so sad. They bought them less than a decade ago for $13B and did nothing with it. They really got themselves into a great position for Heterogeneous computing and then just did nothing.
- sterlind 2y agoIt's depressing. This should be an age of new hardware, with near-memory computing and flexible architecture. Instead it's GPUs for the foreseeable future, Nvidia has a near monopoly, AMD seems uninterested (despite also owning Xilinx), and Intel's throwing in the towel. I wanted to prototype a systolic array coupled with a DRAM slice to hold the weight matrix, but there's not even DRAM blocks distributed on any of the FPGAs I saw. I guess Xilinx has HBM but still not quite what I wanted.
- arder 2y agoHold up, they didn't do nothing. They tried and failed. There were several attempts at packaging an FPGA with a CPU and none of them worked.
- BeetleB 2y agoThey tried a lot of things with Altera and failed. The real problem is the price they paid (it was more than $13B). At the time they bought it, Altera had net revenues of $0.5B. They simply paid too much to ever recoup the expense.