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A comment on AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech.

Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by rwmj on Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:34PM (#25623809)
About *!$% time! I was hoping Intel would do something like this when they acquired Altera a few years back. Does anyone know why Intel acquired Altera?
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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by PedroBatista on Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:39PM (#25623874)
Almost the same reason someone buys a Peloton bike or rusted old Porsche. Because someone had a dream last night and have the money.
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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by sbrorson on Sunday January 03, 2021 @06:03PM (#25626131)
chuckle This is true. As far as I can see (as a hardware engineer frequently doing FPGA stuff) The Intel/Altera combo has not produced any new products nor yielded any customer benefit beyond what would have happened if the two companies had remained independent. But I'll bet the "business strategists" at each company who thought this one up made a pile of money from the deal.
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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by d_tr on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:01PM (#25624696)
AFAIK there exist some Xeon + FPGA chips. No clue about availability though...
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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by harry8 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:04PM (#25627548)
Are they connected by the pcie bus though?

https://www.xes-inc.com/

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