The Next Platform

Xilinx Keeps A Low Profile With Mainstream FPGA Accelerator

Accelerators of many kinds, but particularly those with GPUs and FPGAs, can be pretty hefty compute engines that meet or exceed the power, thermal, and spatial envelopes of modern processors. They do ...
Space.com

Radiation resistance is baked into the Perseverance Mars rover. Here's why that's important.

Think about the number of times your computer on Earth has crashed. Now imagine how challenging that would be during a rover mission on Mars. From time to time, the Curiosity rover has gone into "safe ...
The Motley Fool

Here's Why AMD's Acquisition of Xilinx Is Such a Great Deal

Xilinx will substantially boost AMD's profile in the chip space and make it even more profitable. During its last quarter, Xilinx reported revenue of $879 million, up 21% from a year ago and putting ...
Datacenter Dynamics

AMD to acquire FPGA company Xilinx for $35 billion

AMD will acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The transaction has been unanimously approved by both companies' boards, but is subject to approval by AMD and Xilinx ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Xilinx unveils Versal ACAP chip and Alveo accelerators for the data center

Earlier this year, Victor Peng, the new CEO of semiconductor designer Xilinx, outlined his vision for a "data center first" company in an interview with DCD. Today, at the Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF) ...
Nasdaq

Xilinx, Inc. Just Recorded A 29% EPS Beat: Here's What Analysts Are Forecasting Next

A week ago, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) came out with a strong set of quarterly numbers that could potentially lead to a re-rate of the stock. It was overall a positive result, with revenues beating ...
EDN

Xilinx fires a 5G solution shot across the bow of RF and data converter companies

This product is featured in EDN’s Hot 100 products of 2017. See all 100 here. I remember when specialty companies like Graychip made their mark in the ’90s with digital down conversion (DDC) and ...
SiliconIndia

Xilinx picks 28nm process for next-generation FPGAs

Bangalore: Programmable logic solutions provider Xilinx has unveiled its architecture for next-generation FPGA products that will be built on 28 nanometer high-k metal gate at TSMC and Samsung. Using ...
CRN

AMD Completes $49B Xilinx Acquisition, Largest Chip Deal In History

With the acquisition, AMD is expanding beyond its purview of CPUs and GPUs with a large portfolio of reprogrammable chips called field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, that it says will ...
Electronic Design

AMD/Xilinx

Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, programmable SoCs, and now, the ACAP. Our highly-flexible programmable silicon, enabled by a suite of advanced software and tools, drives rapid innovation across a ...
Business Wire

Xilinx Acquires Silexica to Broaden its Developer Base

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive computing, today announced that it has acquired Silexica, a privately-held provider of C/C++ programming and ...
SpaceNews

Hundreds of Xilinx Space Grade FPGAs Deployed in Launch of Iridium NEXT Satellites

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today that hundreds of its Space Grade FPGAs were deployed in the launch of the Iridium NEXT satellites. Space Grade Virtex®-5QV devices provide scalability and ...