Re:Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip
by nickpsecurity on Sunday September 25, 2016 @09:44PM
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They're similar in capabilities, Altera's tooling is easier-to-use per comments I see, and it's much cheaper buy. Funny thing was that, when Intel was buying Altera, people were suggesting Xilinx should buy AMD. That's how funny the financial situation is between top CPU and FPGA vendors. Haha.
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Re:Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip
by qq66 on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:43AM
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In heavily scale-dependent industries there's often an enormous financial gap between #1 and #2. Compare Intel's CPU profits to AMD's, Nvidia's to formerly ATI, Xilinx to Altera, Apple to Samsung, etc.
Re:Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip
by nickpsecurity on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:28AM
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It's true. Comes from First Mover Advantage that I'm aware of. I used to say go for quality first but these days I'm likely to tell people to be first to ship with extra care on upgradeable interfaces. Then you get First Mover Advantage plus ability to fix the BS it causes.