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Why Did Silver Lake Buy A Majority Stake In Intel’s Altera FPGA Business?

April 15, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Beleaguered chip maker Intel has been looking for ways to capitalize on non-core, not large, but profitable parts of its business to raise funds for its ambitious plans to revitalize Intel Foundry and to also invest heavily in the Intel Products group. …

Compute

Altera Is Being Realistic About FPGA Compute In The Datacenter

September 26, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Like many a decade ago, we were enthusiastic about the prospect of triple-hybrid systems in the datacenter. …

Compute

The Once And Future FPGA Maker Altera

February 29, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

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. …

Compute

Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path

October 4, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 14

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

September 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

Compute

How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs?

February 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

Connect

The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage

February 5, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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

January 15, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

Compute

Stratix 10 SX At The Heart Of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator

August 5, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

Intel has started shipping a new FPGA accelerator card based on the high-end Stratix 10 SX FPGA.  …

Compute

With Agilex, Intel Gets A Coherent FPGA Strategy

April 2, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

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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