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Xilinx Chases Hyperscale. Who’s Chasing Xilinx?

Posted November 17, 2016December 16, 2016 Liam KeatingPosted in FPGA, M&A, xilinx

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 […]

Silicon Photonics -Reality Check !

Posted November 8, 2016December 16, 2016 Liam KeatingPosted in Intel, M&A, Silicon Photonics

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 […]

Lattice Semiconductor Goes To China

Posted November 4, 2016December 16, 2016 Liam KeatingPosted in M&A

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, […]

Skyworks & FPGA Fireworks

Posted November 3, 2016December 16, 2016 Liam KeatingPosted in M&A

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 […]

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