Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier?

Re:Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier? by tux3 on Sunday May 24, 2026 @04:06AM (#48255466)

Vivado already supports Linux, the development is supported by very large customers that put FPGAs in cars, [REDACTED], and other kinds of objects that crash into other objects.

This is just hurting students and hobbyists.

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Re:Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier? by atq2119 on Sunday May 24, 2026 @11:56AM (#48258319)

And, since there's a pipeline from students and hobbyists to professional use, it's risking the future.

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Re:Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier? by tardedmeme on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:03PM (#48261464)

AMD has been unable to not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for ages. I'd almost say someone high up is getting kickbacks from their competitors.

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Re:Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier? by ua709 on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:57PM (#48258952)

Schools can join the AMD University Program and get back to where they were, and more. https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program.html

As for hobbyists, in the world of $0.03 microcontrollers, strong competition on the low end from Chinese manufacturers, and where few people learn HDLs, is NRE money in the hobby market really money well spent?

I'm a HW designer and even I use microcontrollers now for most things, but not everything, because it's usually cheaper and faster.

With semiconductor prices coming down as far as they have I think the world has probably fundamentally changed for FPGAs and the niche they occupied is shrinking fast.

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Re:Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier? by jeltz on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:00PM (#48259001)

And hurting AMD.

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