AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
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Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#2If I have one wish for AMD, I wish that they would make FPGAs (and Xilinx) a more open and diverse platform like the PC. Not that the PC is perfect (there's still closed-source firmware), but any improvement to the current state of FPGAs would be welcomed.
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#3Recieved approval from the Chinese anti-trust body. Still waiting for the FTC sign-off, but that should be a rubberstamp at this point.
This acquisition brings AMD up to par with Intel's market share in the chip market.
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#4Recieved approval from the Chinese anti-trust body. Still waiting for the FTC sign-off, but that should be a rubberstamp at this point. This acquisition brings AMD up to par with Intel's market share in the chip market.
To be fully honest, I don't understand why companies do so much business in China. Yes, there's money, but there's so much danger and risk involved it increasingly looks like betting on Bitcoin for your retirement.
An example of this would be what happened to the ARM China division, which has gone completely rogue and the Chinese government couldn't care less.
There's also the fact that, Intel and AMD for making the most high-performance parts should have the upper-hand. If they refused to do business in China, the Chinese government and citizens would be forced to mass-import their CPUs and not be able to control them. ARM is not even close to ready to run Chinese data centers.
Of course, this would incentivize China to immediately do everything they could to replace Intel and AMD, but they could be forced to grovel in the meantime. And Intel and AMD can feel comfortable they aren't supporting genocide (at least according to the UN).
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#5If I have one wish for AMD, I wish that they would make FPGAs (and Xilinx) a more open and diverse platform like the PC. Not that the PC is perfect (there's still closed-source firmware), but any improvement to the current state of FPGAs would be welcomed.
Yeah a co processor with fpga on it or even an expansion card I can buy at micro center for 100 bucks would be great!
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#6If I have one wish for AMD, I wish that they would make FPGAs (and Xilinx) a more open and diverse platform like the PC. Not that the PC is perfect (there's still closed-source firmware), but any improvement to the current state of FPGAs would be welcomed.
Yeah a co processor with fpga on it or even an expansion card I can buy at micro center for 100 bucks would be great!
Or even better, a useful FPGA that is inside the Ryzen processor itself. It might be very small, but if it was standardized, had an easier way to program it, and programs could load acceleration routines into it, that would be so cool.
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#7Why?
Has Intel done anything with Altera? I’m curious.
AMD’s acquisition of ATI is generally viewed as a strategic error. Does this make more sense?
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#8If I have one wish for AMD, I wish that they would make FPGAs (and Xilinx) a more open and diverse platform like the PC. Not that the PC is perfect (there's still closed-source firmware), but any improvement to the current state of FPGAs would be welcomed.
What’s wrong with current state except that the chips have lead time of 52+ weeks?
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#9Why? Has Intel done anything with Altera? I’m curious. AMD’s acquisition of ATI is generally viewed as a strategic error. Does this make more sense?
Intel sold power electronics group(?) for 85 million dollar, that Altera bought for 140 million: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16257/mediatek-subsidiary-to-...
I also know that many clients ditched SoCs with ARM cores from Altera when Intel acquired it being afraid that Intel does not like these alien cores.
Re: AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
#10Recieved approval from the Chinese anti-trust body. Still waiting for the FTC sign-off, but that should be a rubberstamp at this point. This acquisition brings AMD up to par with Intel's market share in the chip market.
To be fully honest, I don't understand why companies do so much business in China. Yes, there's money, but there's so much danger and risk involved it increasingly looks like betting on Bitcoin for your retirement. An example of this would be what happened to the ARM China division, which has gone completely rogue and the Chinese government couldn't care less. There's also the fact that, Intel and AMD for making the…
Companies aren't to blame. Our lawmakers are. They need to pass laws that protect US interests but for last 3 decades, they've sold the American worker's soul to the CCP & private-gov enterprise in China. Apple spent $275 billion to boost Chinese manufacturing, but fuck-all to do anything in US. They could have built a whole ecosystem of US electronics manufacturers and make everything in US + Mexico, but their shareholders will never vote for it. So, laws must be passed to force them. The revolving door in DC has crushed the working class people of US and the same goes on in EU, the west generally.
[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chine...