Compute
The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter
You don’t have to be a chip designer to program an FPGA, just like you don’t have to be a C++ programmer to code in Java, but it probably helps in both cases if you want to do them well. …
Xilinx
Connect
Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs
The consensus is growing among the big datacenter operators of the world that CPU cores are such a precious commodity that they should never do network, storage, or hypervisor housekeeping work but rather focus on the core computation that they are really acquired to do. …
Compute
Xilinx Keeps A Low Profile With Mainstream FPGA Accelerator
Accelerators of many kinds, but particularly those with GPUs and FPGAs, can be pretty hefty compute engines that meet or exceed the power, thermal, and spatial envelopes of modern processors. …
AI
Teasing Out The Bang For The Buck Of Inference Engines
There is a battle heating up in the datacenter, and there are tens of billions of dollars at stake as chip makers chase the burgeoning market for engines that do machine learning inference. …
AI
Inferring The Future Of The FPGA, And Then Making It
Technologies often start out in one place and then find themselves in another. …
Compute
System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World
Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. …
AI
Xilinx Unveils xDNN FPGA Architecture for AI Inference
FPGAs might not have carved out a niche in the deep learning training space the way some might have expected but the low power, high frequency needs of AI inference fit the curve of reprogrammable hardware quite well. …
Compute
FPGA Maker Xilinx Says the Future of Computing is ACAP
The field programmable gate space is heating up with new use cases driven by everything from emerging network, IoT, and application acceleration trends. …
AI
FPGA Interconnect Boosted In Concert With Compute
To keep their niche in computing, field programmable gate arrays not only need to stay on the cutting edge of chip manufacturing processes. …
AI
An Early Look at Baidu’s Custom AI and Analytics Processor
In the U.S. it is easy to focus on our native hyperscale companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.) …