Emboldened, perhaps, by their major design win at Baidu last month (details here), Xilinx this week is demonstrating its reconfigurable acceleration for cloud scale applications at SC16. According to their press release, they will “highlight how Xilinx® All Programmable technologies are […]
Intel finally announced its first commercially available products based on its proprietary silicon photonics technology (which was fifteen years in the making) at IDF back in August, details from CNET here. What exactly is silicon photonics? At its simplest, it can […]
Yesterday I speculated about the possible buyers for Lattice Semiconductor and Xilinx- today we have the answer to one of those questions. Lattice has sold itself to a little known California investment firm called Canyon Bridge Capital Partners for $1.3 billion, […]
According to Bloomberg, Skyworks is in the process of making a bid for Microsemi Corporation – you can read the details here. Now, who are Microsemi and why should I care, I hear you ask. Well, they are a US-based […]