Re:Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip
by nickpsecurity on Sunday September 25, 2016 @09:54PM
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I'm surprised some cloud vendor hasn't acquired eASIC yet. They throw together stuff easily whose price/performance is between FPGA's and standard ASIC's. Have a bunch of machines for rapid, chip prototyping from FPGA's to their S-ASIC's at 90nm, 45nm, and 28nm. Any IP for networking, storage, security, whatever could be turned into a chip easily.
Vendor could pull a IBM or SGI with little boards with high-end CPU's + FPGA's or S-ASIC's for various coprocessors. Not sure if it's ultimately best idea but surprised I haven't seen anyone try it. Wait, just looked up their press releases and it seems they're doing something through OpenPOWER:
Re:Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip
by ttul on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:24AM
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eASIC is a great little niche-filler. You can get a design fabbed in test quantities for as little as $150K or so, which is akin to "free" next to real ASIC design fabrication.
Vendor could pull a IBM or SGI with little boards with high-end CPU's + FPGA's or S-ASIC's for various coprocessors. Not sure if it's ultimately best idea but surprised I haven't seen anyone try it. Wait, just looked up their press releases and it seems they're doing something through OpenPOWER:
http://www.easic.com/easic-joins-the-openpower-foundation-to...