The Next Platform

Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera

For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house.
The Next Platform

Intel Gears Up For FPGA Push

Chip giant Intel has been talking about CPU-FPGA compute complexes for so long that it is hard to remember sometimes that its hybrid Xeon-Arria compute unit, which puts a Xeon server chip and a ...
Forbes

For Intel, Adding Altera, FPGA Hardware Is Easy: Next Comes Supporting Software

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Intel starts shipping FPGAs with ARM on board

Intel has started shipping Stratix 10 SX, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) system with an integrated chip based on technology designed by ARM. The device is positioned as a hardware acceleration ...
PC World

Intel envisions smarter autonomous cars with Altera FPGAs

For decades, Intel processors have powered most of the world’s PCs. But the company is now looking outside its conventional chips to FPGAs, or field programmable gate arrays, as it searches for ways ...
Network World

Intel details FPGA roadmap

Intel is taking its FGPA lineup beyond the data center and extending its Agilex products to remote, edge computing, and embedded systems. Seven years after its $16.7 billion acquisition of FPGA maker ...
ZDNet

Intel pushes FPGAs into the data center

When it comes to speeding up computationally intensive workloads, GPUs are not the only game in town. FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) are also gaining traction in data centers. While companies ...
insideHPC

Accelerating HPC with Intel FPGAs

In this guest post, Intel explores how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be used to accelerate high performance computing. A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a user-customizable ...
Forbes

Intel's Investment In FPGAs To Enable Reconfigurable Data Centers And AI Processing Of The Future

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. When Intel acquired FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip ...
Ars Technica

Intel will acquire FPGA maker Altera for $16.7 billion

Intel, after a couple of months of negotiation, has agreed to buy Altera for $16.7 billion (£11 billion) in cash. The acquisition comes just a few days after Avago announced its $37 billion ...
ZDNet

Intel chases hyperscale datacentres with FPGA bolt-on

As web giants such as Google and Facebook customise their huge IT estates to drive down running costs, Intel is trying to meet their needs by making its chips more flexible. Its latest step is to ...
Guru3D.com

Intel Ships First 10nm Agilex FPGAs

Intel Corporation announced in August 2019 that it had begun shipments of the first Intel Agilex field programmable gate arrays. Early access program customers were using Agilex FPGAs to develop ...