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Intel bought Altera; the are or were doing fab work for Achronix, which they invested in as well.
by hga 11y ago
Intel bought Altera; the are or were doing fab work for Achronix, which they invested in as well.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThe Intel and Altera combination is especially exciting. The first time I got to see the real potential of FPGA's in practice was when SGI added them to NUMA machines. The onboard memory and interconnect meant no huge slowdown for going through PCI bottleneck. A FPGA fabric as a layer of a high-end, Intel chip with software & FPGA cooperation using on-chip interconnect would kill everything else in performance. The only thing better might be one of the POWER chips with a FPGA. Maybe IBM should buy Xilinx or Achronix... mwahahaha. I'll probably be able to afford Intel's, though, unlike IBM's. ;)