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. …
Like many a decade ago, we were enthusiastic about the prospect of triple-hybrid systems in the datacenter. …
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. …
Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. …
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. …
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. …
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
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. …
Intel has started shipping a new FPGA accelerator card based on the high-end Stratix 10 SX FPGA. …
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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