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AMD Girds For Compute War With Xilinx Deal

October 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns out, she is relinquishing her position as president to Victor Peng, chief executive at Xilinx, to close the deal. …

Compute

Pondering That Rumored $30 Billion AMD Acquisition Of Xilinx

October 9, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

You can have a strategy, but you can’t buy one.

Nothing illustrates this principle more than the networking buying binges that both Intel and AMD went on nearly a decade ago, which did not really amount to much in the end but which made some sort of sense in the middle of it all happening. …

Compute

Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter

July 13, 2020 Sponsored Content by Xilinx 0

With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …

Compute

Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms

March 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

It has been a long time since plain vanilla programmable logic circuits known as field programmable gate arrays have been available in a raw form. …

Compute

A Flare For SmartNICs

March 3, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …

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

Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share?

January 31, 2020 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 6

Over a decade ago we would not have expected accelerators to have be commonplace in the datacenter. …

Compute

AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter

January 29, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …

HPC

HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal

January 16, 2020 Michael Feldman 0

After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …

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