Last week, Synopsys invited a handful of journalists and analysts to attend their annual SNUG (Synopsys Users’ Group) meeting for the first time in 30 years. Why? What message did the company want …
With Supercomputing 2021 underway this week, all eyes are focused on high-performance computing (HPC) and the incredible advances we are seeing in the world’s fastest computers. (OK, not really ALL…
For decades, FPGA companies have been bragging about how their devices can be used to accelerate all sorts of compute-intensive functions, and they have built a large market for themselves convinci…
There is an interesting side effect of Moore’s Law’s relentless march, where some technologies atrophy even though they are still extremely relevant and applicable in the mainstream. Take, for exam…
Just over three years ago, Victor Peng took the helm as CEO at Xilinx upon the
retirement of Moshe Gavrielov. The management transition marked the beginning of
a new era at the company, as Peng beg…
According to tech folklore, Carver Mead actually coined the term “Moore’s Law” – some ten years or so after the publication of Gordon Moore’s landmark 1965 Electronics Magazine article “Cramm…
We first met Achronix back in 2004 and have been following them constantly for sixteen years now. We’ve seen the company go from a founder-funded startup developing revolutionary asynchronous FPGAs…
“If the end of Moore’s Law is a wall, the first one to slam into it will be whoever was ahead.” — Me, today Days after we published our “No More Nanometers” article discussing the perils and …
“I learned how to measure before I knew what was size.” – Sofi Tukker, “House Arrest” Let’s start by speaking some truth. Nothing about the “5 nanometer” CMOS process has any real relationshi…
With the COVID-19 situation continuing to evolve, numerous companies in our
industry have been telling their employees to work from home (WFH) lately to
enable “social distancing” to slow the sprea…
Intel announced this week that they have begun shipping the first of their new Agilex FPGAs to early-access customers. This moves us into what we historically think of as the “head-to-head” phase …