With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...

Intel has launched a standalone FPGA (field-programmable gate array) business, branding it Altera - after the company it acquired in 2015. The company will sell reconfigurable chips for systems across ...

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For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house.

When Intel bought Altera last year, there was speculation on how we'd see future FPGA products fit within Intel's existing product lines. Intel has previously stated it intends to offer a Xeon ...

Mixing FPGAs with CPUs—to serve and protect. What does this deal mean for both companies and the industry at large? On Monday, June 1, computer processor company Intel announced that it will buy ...

The chipmaker explains why Altera's Intel-built FPGA was delayed. Frist, Intel hoped to give Altera's core stand-alone Field Programmable Gate Array, or FPGA, business a competitive advantage by ...

For decades, Intel processors have powered most of the world’s PCs. But the company is now looking outside its conventional chips to FPGAs, or field programmable gate arrays, as it searches for ways ...

Intel is preparing one of its largest acquisitions to date, with Altera. Altera is a well-known manufacturer of SoC and FPGAs, and could seriously bolster Intel's already strong position in the market ...

Don't count on seeing fully integrated products until 2019. FPGAs are of interest to Intel's customers primarily because they can be configured to act as workload specific accelerators on-the-fly.