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Report: Intel desperately seeks to raise cash, plans to sell Altera stake

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:18:01 +0000

According to a new report, Intel is actively seeking to raise some capital by selling a stake in its Altera division amid financial challenges. Read more...

Intel launches new (old) FPGA company Altera, announces Agilex products

Paul Hill — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:34:01 +0000

Intel has launched Altera as an independent company which will focus on FPGA hardware. While Altera is a separate company, Intel will hold a majority stake in the company so it'll be influential. Read more...

Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs to offer highest memory bandwidth, aimed at crypto mining

Alap Naik Desai — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 05:24:01 +0000

Intel has revealed the Agilex M-Series FPGAs. The company claims they have the industry's highest memory bandwidth and DSP compute density. Cryptocurrency miners could benefit the most from these. Read more...

Cadence's latest Palladium and Protium "dynamic duo" to offer 2X capacity and 1.5X gains

Sayan Sen — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:08:01 +0000

Cadence has announced its new Palladium Z2 and Protium X2 "dynamic duo" systems. The Palladium and Protium products provide pre-silicon hardware and software testing for hardware companies. Read more...

The new Intel Open FPGA Stack is geared towards easing development of custom platforms

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:18:01 +0000

The Intel OFS aims to increase the adoption of FPGAs in the industry by providing an open-source platform that enables code modularity and reusability when developing and deploying on FPGAs. Read more...

Intel announces the eASIC N5X to power 5G, AI, cloud, and edge workloads

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:54:01 +0000

Intel's latest offering in its lineup of eASICs, the N5X boasts 50% lower core power and lower cost compared to FPGAs. It will be geared towards accelerating 5G, AI, cloud, and edge workloads. Read more...

FPGA-based inference accelerator outscores GPUs and ASICs in MLPerf benchmark

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:00:01 +0000

Mispology's FPGA-based Zebra AI inference accelerator outperformed Nvidia A100, V100, Tesla T4, AWS Inferencia, Google TPUv3, and others, on the ResNet 50 architecture in ML inference efficiency. Read more...

Intel expands its programmable solutions talent and capabilities with eASIC purchase

Paul Hill — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:56:01 +0000

Intel has announced that it is acquiring eASIC. With the purchase, Intel says it is acquiring a manufacturer of leading products and its world-class team. The deal will be finalised in Q3 2018. Read more...

Intel wants to make artificial intelligence 100 times faster with new class of processors

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:44:01 +0000

Intel has announced the upcoming launch of a new class of processors and platform dedicated to AI, called Nervana. The company says it wants to achieve 100x speed increases compared to GPUs. Read more...

Intel seems to stumble as CEO looks to the future

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:32:01 +0000

While CEO Brian Krzanich is trying to reassure investors and employees about Intel's bright future, the company seems to be trying a plethora of different things and seeing what sticks. Read more...

Intel buys out rival Altera for $16.7 billion

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 13:34:02 +0000

Intel, one of the largest chipmakers around, is buying one of its rivals, Altera. The latter was focused on specialized processors that are increasingly being used alongside traditional servers. Read more...