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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by dataflow on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:49AM (#26735200)
> Most acquisitions of FPGA companies

> any example of a FPGA provider

Are there lots of FPGA companies that have gotten acquired in the first place? Only Altera comes to my mind.

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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by monocasa on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:55AM (#26735226)
Atmel had some FPGAs when acquired by Microchip. Albeit Microchip is sort of where chip families go to die, so I wouldn't draw a trend from that.

Would the Xilinx/AMD acquisition make Lattice the biggest independent FPGA vendor?

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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by duskwuff on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:58AM (#26735888)
Many of Lattice's FPGAs were acquisitions as well. The iCE series came from SiliconBlue; ECP5 came from Silicon Image.
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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by lnsru on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:02AM (#26735257)
Actel was acquired by Microsemi that was acquired by Microchip.
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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by Ballas on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:51AM (#26735851)
In my opinion they have only gotten better. That said - my opinion of Actel was pretty close to the floor.
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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by lnsru on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:18AM (#26737402)
From my current perspective Actel was ok for its time. I worked with APA150 FPGAs in the past and for that ancient time it was ok. I heard, Microchip has cool SoC with RISC-V nowadays. I just don’t have time to play with them after work.
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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by fridif on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:56AM (#26735228)
Altera and Xilinx are the only two FPGAs out there ;)
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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by WillSlim95 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:32AM (#26735389)
Uh at the high end there is Achronix and then the lower end you have Microchip(ex Microsemi(ex-Actel) and Lattice, Efinx and there are a couple of Chinese startups.
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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by sigstoat on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:15AM (#26735308)
lattice?
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