Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender From post-Athlon 64 dive into near obscurity to chip market stalwart Systems27 Nov 2024 | 43
Can a Xilinx FPGA recreate a 1990s Quake-capable 3D card? Yup! Meet the FuryGpu The 'most painful' part? Coding the Windows drivers Personal Tech30 Mar 2024 | 26
AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips But can it run Crysis? Systems27 Jun 2023 | 16
Are accelerators the cure to video's power problem or just an excuse to peddle GPUs? Analysis You could just watch less TikTok or Twitch, maybe go outside Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 17
AMD's Epyc server chips give strong revenue growth, but profits drop 98% CEO Lisa Su's job is vastly more fun that Pat Gelsinger's right now, at least on the balance sheet Systems01 Feb 2023 | 2
Chips in space: Reprogrammable AMD AI SoC cleared for liftoff Team Red believes chip will allow AI inferencing to proliferate in the cosmos Systems15 Nov 2022 | 2
AMD to offer CPUs with Xilinx AI engine in 2023 And unlike Intel, Zen giant saw boom in PC land, thanks to focus on high-end parts AI + ML04 May 2022 |
AMD, Xilinx complete world's biggest semiconductor merger thanks to stock boom The effect of Ryzen share prices On-Prem14 Feb 2022 | 5
AMD confirms Xilinx merger approved by regulators While Nvidia loses an Arm, this acquisition has legs Systems10 Feb 2022 | 5
FPGA now means Finally, PRC Grants Approval: China OKs AMD's $35bn Xilinx buy hurdles <= hurdles - 1; Networks27 Jan 2022 | 5
Get a load of fancypants no-enemies AMD-Xilinx: 'Large majority' of third parties 'had no concerns' about pair's hookup British competition watchdog publishes details of why it approved AMD/Xilinx merger On-Prem16 Jul 2021 | 6
Xilinx snaps up 'accelerated computing' specialist Silexica for its SLX FPGA tool suite AMD hoping to grow its $38bn Xilinx acquisition as it seeks to compete with Intel's Altera On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 2
UK's competition watchdog sniffs around AMD's proposed $35bn all-stock buy of Xilinx Updated Will deal make goods, services less competitive? Regulator wants to hear from interested parties Systems10 May 2021 | 19
Remember AMD, Xilinx were merging? Shareholders give thumbs up to $35bn deal Let's see what the regulators say Systems08 Apr 2021 | 3
Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane Networks23 Feb 2021 | 5
Advanced Money-making Devices: AMD inks multibillion stock deal for FPGA specialist Xilinx Intel rival up 50%+ in profits just a week after Chipzilla 30% plunge On-Prem27 Oct 2020 | 9
Welp, it is the season for silicon mega-mergers... AMD rumored to be in advanced talks to buy FPGA slinger Xilinx for $30bn+ Let the chips fall where they may Science09 Oct 2020 | 17
Hey, what kind of silicon may power next-gen space probes? We hope your answer includes 'AI acceleration' Updated Xilinx touts 'industry-first' 20nm FPGA for infinity and beyond AI + ML19 May 2020 | 4
Attack of the clones: If you were relying on older Xilinx FPGAs to keep your product's hardware code encrypted and secret, here's some bad news Decrypted configuration bitstream can be siphoned from chips via side-channel flaw Security22 Apr 2020 | 7
FPGA biz Xilinx pops ACAP in Samsung's 5G network gear That's the Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform btw Networks16 Apr 2020 |
Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it Premium chip is 7nm, 4 Arm CPU cores, up to 7.4 million logic cells, multi-Tbps networking and crypto Networks10 Mar 2020 | 18
Is that a typo? Oh, it's not a typo. Ampere really is touting an 80-core 64-bit 7nm Arm server processor dubbed Altra Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC Systems03 Mar 2020 | 21
How the US-China trade war is felt stateside: Xilinx trims workforce after lucrative Huawei sales pipe blocked 'A combination of losing Huawei and slower than anticipated ramp in 5G' Networks16 Feb 2020 | 34
Xilinx FPGA. Nvidia GPU storage. 56-core Intel Xeons versus AMD next-gen Epyc. It's all kicking off in data-center world Roundup Your quick summary of news from the server room On-Prem07 Aug 2019 | 5
Having dated for a while, Xilinx gets serious and buys Solarflare to raise its networking game FPGAs + NICs = profit On-Prem25 Apr 2019 |
What's this under the Christmas tree? A gift-wrapped Mellanox, for Microsoft? Say it ain't so Windows giant mulls gobbling up network kit maker, according to anon insiders Networks20 Dec 2018 | 6
FPGAs? Sure, them too. Liqid pours chips over composable computing systems Xilinx Alveo cards added to platform list HPC13 Nov 2018 | 12
AI engines, Arm brains, DSP brawn... Versal is Xilinx's Kitchen Sink Edition FPGA XDF Good news: It's 7nm. Sad news: It's shipping 2H 2019 On-Prem04 Oct 2018 | 4
Xilinx to bust ACAP in the dome of data centres all over with uber FPGA That's an Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform btw On-Prem19 Mar 2018 | 7
Mellanox NICs Xilinx FPGA to save backplane slots and CPU cycles And it's not just about bonkers Bitcoin mining rigs Networks06 Nov 2017 | 5
Chinese con-artists cop to US military counterfeit chip switch caper Trio tried to buy stolen Navy Xilinx FPGAs for $37k each, replace them with duds Legal19 Apr 2016 | 21
Cisco and friends chase WiFi's searing speeds with new cable standard Cat 5e and Cat 6 are bottlenecks for WLAN access points Networks29 Oct 2014 | 14
Inside Intel's deal to let FPGA biz Altera use its 22nm TriGate fabs Analysis As Achronix loses its Chipzilla exclusivity On-Prem26 Feb 2013 | 3