Soldato
What this totally means for thr consumer I must admit I have no clue.
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/xilinx-acquisition
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/xilinx-acquisition
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AMD Acquires Xilinx
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Mrs Sue explains it....
Xilinx have IP, expertise and an existing market
AMD have IP, expertise and an existing market
Together they have more IP, expertise and an existing market, they can also combine their IP and expertise to grow in to new markets.
AMD bought out Xilinx because they have something they need to grow their business.
Mrs Sue explains it....
Xilinx have IP, expertise and an existing market
AMD have IP, expertise and an existing market
Together they have more IP, expertise and an existing market, they can also combine their IP and expertise to grow in to new markets.
AMD bought out Xilinx because they have something they need to grow their business.
Now translate that into something I can hold and plug into a PC I'm not sure what we the gamers will get from this. Only time will tell
Caporegime
No idea but the reason AMD are making more and more competitive products is because they have money for R&D, In the intrest of this room if rumours are true AMD will beat Nvidia in raw performance and performance per watt with the next round of GPU's. Just as they have already beaten Intel in the same metrics.
This is what a healthy AMD looks like, again...
Also.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-market-cap-surpasses-intel
Xilinx do make boards you can plug in, not sure a gamer would be interested though.
Nice acquisition I think
Soldato
Maybe we might see AMD's version of Geforce Now.
Caporegime
No, Google are starting to give up on Stadia because they couldn't get enough subscribers.
Geforce now is doing much better but only because of Jenz Pig Headedness in refusing to give up on it and pouring vast amounts of resources in to it.
At home gamers are just not interested in streaming what they can do better locally on their own machine.
Soldato
From Lisa Su said the Xilinx purchase allows AMD to diversify it's product portfolio so if the CPU or GPU division go back into a slump they can offset revenue decline with the sales from Xilinx and vice versa.
Soldato
I was just guessing looking at the Xilinx website as they do datacentre hardware.
Caporegime
FPGAs
Something AMD don't have.PS: i just noticed AMD's branding is already all over the Xilinx Website
Soldato
FPGAs
PS: i just noticed AMD's branding is already all over the Xilinx Website
yeah I noticed that too.
Now there's are blast from the past
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This should be an interesting partnership/aquisition.
I've worked with Xilinx parts from their teensy CPLDs all the way upto their 50B+ transistor MPSoC's, which are cutting edge in every sense.
Xilinx bring some leading IP: Networking, RF IOs, Memory Controllers, Networking Controllers and obviously everything FPGA. They also have some _really_ impressive SoC products that integrate FPGAs with various CPU cores and other peripherals, which are ending up in most cars and a bunch of other products. Where Xilinx are really good is how easy it is to get information between each domian, i.e. FPGA feeding the CPU and vice versa.
I expect they'll bring some immensely powerful and well integrated compute platforms within a few years. It won't hurt to have Xilinx' insane networking IP to leverage as well.
I've worked with Xilinx parts from their teensy CPLDs all the way upto their 50B+ transistor MPSoC's, which are cutting edge in every sense.
Xilinx bring some leading IP: Networking, RF IOs, Memory Controllers, Networking Controllers and obviously everything FPGA. They also have some _really_ impressive SoC products that integrate FPGAs with various CPU cores and other peripherals, which are ending up in most cars and a bunch of other products. Where Xilinx are really good is how easy it is to get information between each domian, i.e. FPGA feeding the CPU and vice versa.
I expect they'll bring some immensely powerful and well integrated compute platforms within a few years. It won't hurt to have Xilinx' insane networking IP to leverage as well.
Maybe AMD are targeting something similar to the Intel SOC and FPGA offerings.
Would be great to get a Ryzen cored SOC with a FPGA or microcontroller.
https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/details/fpga/agilex.html
https://www.mouser.co.uk/applications/Intel-Quark-Internet-of-Things-MCU/
And this one that worked with the Arduino IDE :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Galileo
Would be great to get a Ryzen cored SOC with a FPGA or microcontroller.
https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/details/fpga/agilex.html
https://www.mouser.co.uk/applications/Intel-Quark-Internet-of-Things-MCU/
And this one that worked with the Arduino IDE :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Galileo
Caporegime
Will watch this later thanks.
Caporegime
What i always find surprising about apparently knowledgeable tech journalists is how they like to talk about Heterogeneous System Architectures, these technologies are the future, but they talk as if AMD are new to it, they talk about Intel doing it for a few years now accelerating some Adobe applications but completely forget about AMD having been the fist to do it a decade ago, they invented the technology in this package form.
Its unsuccessful at scale, as AMD found out a decade ago and Intel are finding out now, however with Xilinx FPGA's its a different story, AMD's first attempt and Intel's current attempt relied on fixed function accelerators. FPGA's are programmable on the fly through software, so AMD can use software updates / profiles that you can click on in your AMD software to accelerate whatever it is you want to do, including Ray Tracing for your games. But there is a down side, you could have a profile for mining and with the click of a button your AMD Ryzen 8950X becomes a mining ASIC.
Intel and Nvidia need to be worried about what AMD are doing here, because whatever they do in fixed function hardware AMD just release a software update retrospectively and blow them out of the water.
AMD first attempt at HSA, what Intel are doing currently.
Its unsuccessful at scale, as AMD found out a decade ago and Intel are finding out now, however with Xilinx FPGA's its a different story, AMD's first attempt and Intel's current attempt relied on fixed function accelerators. FPGA's are programmable on the fly through software, so AMD can use software updates / profiles that you can click on in your AMD software to accelerate whatever it is you want to do, including Ray Tracing for your games. But there is a down side, you could have a profile for mining and with the click of a button your AMD Ryzen 8950X becomes a mining ASIC.
Intel and Nvidia need to be worried about what AMD are doing here, because whatever they do in fixed function hardware AMD just release a software update retrospectively and blow them out of the water.
AMD first attempt at HSA, what Intel are doing currently.
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