Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B

Re:Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B by higherpurpose on Monday June 01, 2015 @09:15AM (#9638263)

If anything Intel has been moving towards "more general purpose" computing in the past few years with Xeon Phi.

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Re:Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B by detaro on Monday June 01, 2015 @10:33AM (#9638828)

They do custom extensions for large customers and announced a Xeon/FPGA combination last year.

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Re:Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B by m_mueller on Monday June 01, 2015 @09:20AM (#9638296)

.. which hasn't exactly payed off yet. Whether Knight's Landing changes that remains to be seen. Intel's reliance on x86 for everything is IMO holding them back in the data parallel HPC segment.

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Re:Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B by selimthegrim on Monday June 01, 2015 @09:48AM (#9638483)

What markets has Phi really made inroads into besides oil and gas legacy codes?

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