FPGAs

AMD’s AI Architecture Making Its Way to Chips

A new AI architecture called XDNA is changing the way AMD designs chips of the future. During a keynote at CES, AMD's CEO Lisa Su shared how it was ...Full Article

NeuReality Partners with IBM Research AI Hardware Center on Next-Gen AI Inferencing Platforms

In February of 2019, IBM launched its IBM Research AI Hardware Center in Albany, N.Y., to create a global research hub to develop next-generation AI hardware with various technology partners ...Full Article

GigaIO Gets $14.7M in Series B Funding to Expand Its Composable Fabric Technology to Customers

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, GigaIO introduced its Universal Composable Fabric technology, which allows enterprises to bring together any HPC and AI resources and integrate ...Full Article

Xilinx Aims Its Newest Versal HBM Accelerators, Coming in 2022, at Big Data Compute Workloads

Just a month after unveiling its latest Versal AI Edge accelerators, FPGA maker Xilinx has announced its newest device family, the Versal HBM series, which includes fast memory, secure ...Full Article

With Approvals in from the EC and the UK, AMD’s $35B Acquisition of Xilinx Now up to China

AMD’s planned acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx is now in the hands of Chinese regulators after needed antitrust approvals for the $35 billion deal were received from the European ...Full Article

Intel Unveils Help for Busy Cloud Service Provider CPUs With Its New Infrastructure Processing Units

To boost the performance of busy CPUs hosted by cloud service providers, Intel Corp. has launched a new line of Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) that take over some of ...Full Article

Investors Bet Flex Logic Embedded FPGAs will Catch Edge AI Wave With $55M New Funding

Geoff Tate, CEO and cofounder of Flex Logix Technologies, told us several years back that edge AI inferencing would be the embedded FPGA vendor’s biggest market through about 2023. ...Full Article

Reports: AMD in Talks to Acquire Xilinx

When reports surfaced during the summer that IP chip vendor Arm Ltd. was on the block, among the potential suitors besides the eventual winner Nvidia were a number of ...Full Article

Bulging Datacenters Fuel Ethernet Adapter Growth

All those huge data sets swirling around datacenters for running more AI and machine learning workloads are proving to be a boon for network adaptor equipment vendors. For example, ...Full Article

Micron Deep Learning Accelerator Gets Memory Boost

Deep learning accelerators based on chip architectures coupled with high-bandwidth memory are emerging to enable near real-time processing of machine learning algorithms. Memory chip specialist Micron Technology argues that ...Full Article