MolaKule
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Chips are not Down as AMD Acquires Xilinx
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wow they bought out Xilinx..
I've always been a fan of AMD, guess I like the underdog. But when they came out with the Athlon chip, that was definitely a statement to the world! That chip was from DEC (Digital Elec Corp) from their Alpha line up. They made a good choice to buy Digital's intellectual property back then.. and looks like the CEO and management is making the right moves, now.. Good for them!
I've always been a fan of AMD, guess I like the underdog. But when they came out with the Athlon chip, that was definitely a statement to the world! That chip was from DEC (Digital Elec Corp) from their Alpha line up. They made a good choice to buy Digital's intellectual property back then.. and looks like the CEO and management is making the right moves, now.. Good for them!
It's more of a mish-mash of the bus architecture of the alpha with refinements to K6 architecture that takes it's lineage back to the buried and forgotten NexGen.wow they bought out Xilinx..
I've always been a fan of AMD, guess I like the underdog. But when they came out with the Athlon chip, that was definitely a statement to the world! That chip was from DEC (Digital Elec Corp) from their Alpha line up. They made a good choice to buy Digital's intellectual property back then.. and looks like the CEO and management is making the right moves, now.. Good for them!
I guess if Intel acquired Altera a few years back it makes sense for AMD to snap up Xilinx.
Wow, AMD has been one heck of a roller coaster. Huge ups for years, near destruction, and now strong again. Going fabless turned out to be a smart move. But.... What will happen with Taiwan Semi?
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AMD was a penny stock at one point. Look at them now.
Back in the day I never liked the AMD K5, it was junk next to the Pentium. But when the K6 rolled around, things changed ... by a lot!
You could easily take the first gen K6 (non-3D) and overclock to 300Mhz~333Mhz. Intel "squatted" (for lack of a better term) to squeeze an extra 33Mhz out of their Pentium MMX chip. That chip was a 200Mhz chip that Intel overclocked to 233Mhz and still couldn't hold a candle to AMD, except in doctored benchmarks.
Ah, the good old days!
Way to go AMD!
Back in the day I never liked the AMD K5, it was junk next to the Pentium. But when the K6 rolled around, things changed ... by a lot!
You could easily take the first gen K6 (non-3D) and overclock to 300Mhz~333Mhz. Intel "squatted" (for lack of a better term) to squeeze an extra 33Mhz out of their Pentium MMX chip. That chip was a 200Mhz chip that Intel overclocked to 233Mhz and still couldn't hold a candle to AMD, except in doctored benchmarks.
Ah, the good old days!
Way to go AMD!
TSMC will always have business - AMD might want to swallow them up. However, Intel is now partnering with TSMC despite the former buying a fabrication firm. And AMD exited the mobile GPU market - selling that division to Qualcomm(hence why Adreno is Radeon spelled backwards). But if AMD buys TSMC, they can work with Apple on better GPUs.
Apple is a major TSMC customer, so are many other fabless silicon companies like Qualcomm(they mostly use Samsung), Broadcom, Marvell, Nvidia(they also use Samsung fabs too) and Mediatek. Huawei’s HiSilicon is the fab of choice with the Chinese firms.
So far the AMD buyout has been a disaster for their clients.
First thing they did was reneg on a full years order of chips they asked us to place to help them out.
Then they raised the price 20% on everything.
Then they cancelled the spartan 6 which the core much of our industry product is based on....
First thing they did was reneg on a full years order of chips they asked us to place to help them out.
Then they raised the price 20% on everything.
Then they cancelled the spartan 6 which the core much of our industry product is based on....
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, optimists make money... 
This mean we got someone to make the chips for cars and trucks now?
These two companies do not manufacture chips. They design a circuit for a chip, then contract with another company to manufacture it. Most of the chip business has split into two tiers(*) like this. The problem lately has been getting chips with existing designs manufactured.
* and a third tier, companies that make machines to manufacture chips, which need upgrade / replacement as chip designs demand smaller dimensions.
* and a third tier, companies that make machines to manufacture chips, which need upgrade / replacement as chip designs demand smaller dimensions.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-market-cap-surpasses-intel "underdog" lol
server guys are very slow adopters, regarding to hardware changes.
but if they are changing sides, it has to be worth the effort and risks. big players jumping on train -google, amazon,baidu...
i hope average joe will benefit from this deal, for example, easy to use fpga accelerators for everybody.(with software ecosystem)
after intel bought altera, not much happened in this regard.
I thought they bought Xilinx a long time ago.
Anyways, it is a smart buy, raising price probably has to do with chip shortage too. I think the future of a lot of the FPGA going card based is the right move and Xilinx card + x86 CPU will be the backbone of many data center for open ran, on demand equipment "rental" instead of purchases, and eventually integration between x86 and FPGA platform.
Intel should have split up their business units so that their CPU and GPU can go pick outside fabs and their old fabs can be used for foundry business, a long time ago. I wish Pat Gelsinger well, I have bet some money on Intel because of him.
Anyways, it is a smart buy, raising price probably has to do with chip shortage too. I think the future of a lot of the FPGA going card based is the right move and Xilinx card + x86 CPU will be the backbone of many data center for open ran, on demand equipment "rental" instead of purchases, and eventually integration between x86 and FPGA platform.
Intel should have split up their business units so that their CPU and GPU can go pick outside fabs and their old fabs can be used for foundry business, a long time ago. I wish Pat Gelsinger well, I have bet some money on Intel because of him.
