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