Intel announces new FPGA families...

[Claudio Avi Chami]

https://fpgaer.tech/?p=561

 

[gnuarm.del...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 12:05:09 PM UTC-4, claudio...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://fpgaer.tech/?p=561

Maybe I\'m just old, but it seems to me \"new\" in the FPGA world is not very inspiring. I guess I\'m really saying I don\'t know diddly about \'“R” transceiver tiles\', CXL v2.0, or \"hardened time-sensitive network controllers\".

Yup, I\'ma gittin\' old.

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[Theo]

gnuarm.del...@gmail.com <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 12:05:09 PM UTC-4, claudio...@gmail.com wrote:
https://fpgaer.tech/?p=561

Maybe I\'m just old, but it seems to me \"new\" in the FPGA world is not very
inspiring. I guess I\'m really saying I don\'t know diddly about \'“R”
transceiver tiles\', CXL v2.0, or \"hardened time-sensitive network
controllers\".

Yup, I\'ma gittin\' old.

I think the FPGA market has bifurcated into (at least) two quite distinct
markets:

- the small, low cost, low power segment, where people want a programmable
chip of the scale of a small CPU like a Z80 or an m68k, maybe in a small
package like a BGA256. Quite a lot of crossover with CPLDs.
- the server/etc market where the chips are as complex, expensive and power
hungry as a modern Xeon

Since being bought by Intel, Altera seemingly have pushed strongly towards
the latter - not terribly surprising given it\'s Intel.

For the former, I think we increasingly have to look away from Altera and
Xilinx and towards the smaller players like Lattice and Microsemi, and maybe
some of the Chinese firms.

Theo