The changing world of server manufacturing has got Altera and AppliedMicro together to jointly develop server chips.
The server world is changing in that the big users of servers – Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc – are now defining their own server requirements which are then being manufactured by the Taiwanese ODMs by…
Achronix, the high performance FPGA specialist, is sampling customers with products made on Intel’s 22nm finfet process.
“We’re sampling several customers,” Achronix CEO Robert Blake, tells me. That’s between 10 to 50 parts per customers. Intel has apparently made over 100 wafers for Achronix.
The first product…
Xilinx will tape out its first 20nm IC in Q2. The chip will be made on TSMC’s 20nm process.
‘Xilinx will be readying device samples this year for strategic customers who can begin implementing next-generation applications,’ says the company.
The Xilinx Vivado design suite, will support initial 20nm…
28nm is turning out to be a great node for Xilinx. ”It is absolutely fabulous for us,” Xilinx CEO Moshe Gavrielov tells me, “it’s the node which is getting us the fastest number of design wins and transferring to revenue quicker than any other node. We’re shipping $10m…
Although they are friends, the CEOs of Altera and Xilinx preside over one of the keenest rivalries in the semiconductor industry.
Founded within a year of eachother in 1983/4, their respective fortunes have waxed and waned over the years. When one comes up the other goes down.
In the…
Another nail in the coffin of ASICs? Xilinx’s 20m ASIC gate stacked silicon FPGA will accelerate the process of replacing ASICs, says the company’s CEO Moshe Gavrielov.
”In a few years, it’s just going to be ASSPs and FPGAs,” he says, “ASICs are going to disappear.”
“The…
With the programmable companies adding more and more fixed functionality to their FPGAs, and the ASSP people making their chips more programmable, when will these two product segments meet in the middle?
“ASSPs are becoming more flexible, and there are areas where we meet, but we make sure our products…
A solid endorsement of UK systems engineering knowledge is implicit in Altera’s decision to recruit UK designers for its systems solutions engineering group at High Wycombe. Altera will expand the group by 33%, representing 17 new designers.
Why not recruit them in Shanghai where Altera also has a systems…