By any chance is the AMD acquisition of Xilinx also targeted towards emulation market for their gaming processors? In the future would they have the emulated bitstream present for different iterations of the gaming consoles?
> By any chance is the AMD acquisition of Xilinx also targeted towards emulation market for their gaming processors? Not even a little bit. Retro gaming emulation accounts for basically zero revenue compared to other markets that Xilinx serves, like HPC, networking, and computer vision.
What about backward compatibility of games in consoles?