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Altera Is Being Realistic About FPGA Compute In The Datacenter
Like many a decade ago, we were enthusiastic about the prospect of triple-hybrid systems in the datacenter. …
Altera
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The Once And Future FPGA Maker Altera
Back in 2015, when we were launching The Next Platform, a lot of stuff was going on all at the same time, which is part of the zeitgeist that we were tapping into and that we wanted to chronical upon and participate within. …
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Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path
Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. …
Compute
Intel To Broaden FPGA Lineup And Make Them At Home
Back in 2015, when Intel was flush with cash thanks to a near-monopoly from X86 datacenter compute, it shelled out an incredible $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera because a few hyperscalers and cloud builders were monkeying around with offloading whole chunks of CPU compute to FPGAs to create SmartNICs. …
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How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs?
If you squint your eyes, a modern FPGA looks like a programmable logic device was crossbred with the mutt of a switch ASIC and an SoC. …
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The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
Compute
Covering All The Compute Bases In A Heterogeneous Datacenter
Intel has spent more than three decades evolving from the dominant provider of CPUs for personal computers to the dominant supplier of processors for servers in the datacenter. …
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Stratix 10 SX At The Heart Of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator
Intel has started shipping a new FPGA accelerator card based on the high-end Stratix 10 SX FPGA. …
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With Agilex, Intel Gets A Coherent FPGA Strategy
When Intel purchased Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, company officials predicted that up to a third of servers would be equipped with FPGAs by 2020. …
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Intel Kicks FPGA Performance Up a Notch With Stratix 10 PAC
Intel is gearing up the FPGA user base it inherited from Altera for the release of Stratix 10 hardware and companion application acceleration stack. …