Some estimates claim the global video streaming market was valued at over $89 billion in 2022, with expectations that it would expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.5% between now 2030. As the industry expands, the demand for servers and appliances purpose-built to handle the workloads and optimize for latency, bandwidth, density and power will commensurately expand as well.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence and Machine Vision have become and ever increasing part of our daily lives, both personally and professionally. Vision AI permeates everything from assembly line manufacturing to video chats, and touches our daily activities in many ways. As such, there is currently an immense demand for developers in the field.
Read MoreAs the metaverse becomes a larger part of the enterprise, business, and our personal lives, the need to ensure high-speed, reliable and secure wireless communications into the metaverse – across the globe –becomes increasingly more important. To that end, AMD has just announced that its recently acquired Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC is being used in the development of multiple Evenstar radio units (RUs).
Read MoreThis morning AMD announced it completed its acquisition of Silicon Valley adaptable computing powerhouse, Xilinx.
Read MoreThis year’s Adapt event kicked-off with a diverse array of disclosures regarding the company’s adaptable Alveo FPGA-based (Field Programmable Gate Array) accelerators, Kria robotics platform solutions and its Vitis SDK.
Read MoreAdaptive silicon solutions heavyweight, Xilinx, has just announced a new line of SmartNIC, or intelligent, adaptable Network Interface Cards, consisting of not only the physical Alveo SN1000 line, but broad platform solution frameworks and references designs to address major market opportunities like AI-powered video analytics and algorithmic financial trading. In addition, the company has launched an FPGA platform app store with ready-to-deploy solutions that address several key markets, such as data analytics, video and image processing, HPC, machine learning, networking and security.
Read MoreCompeting in the semiconductor industry is often a game of chess, placing long term bets several moves ahead that culminate for a winning strategy. The announcement of AMD entering into an agreement to acquire adaptive computing powerhouse Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock transaction, is a proverbial case study in Silicon Valley power moves. The transaction will be immediately accretive to AMD margins, cashflow and EPS, but what’s more interesting to me is the technology that Xilinx brings to the table, as well as the substantial market impact the combined companies could have.
Read MoreThough the field is advancing rapidly, we’re not quite there yet. Technologies being introduced today, however, inch us ever closer to that fully-autonomous future and enhance current vehicles with additional capabilities to improve safety, comfort, or both.
Read MoreFPGAs have evolved into intelligent, adaptable processing engines that will be critical in burgeoning markets like machine learning and 5G wireless infrastructure, since the rate of evolution and innovation in these arenas moves so quickly.
Read MoreThere’s no question, literally every human being worldwide has a responsibility to do their part in the Coronavirus pandemic, even if it’s just simply washing your hands and staying home. However, major Tech innovators around the world have an even greater responsibility, as key intellectual property and specialized manufacturing capabilities can provide a huge positive impact in the fight against COVID-19.
Read MoreXilinx’s Versal products are heterogeneous compute chip solutions that target a wide array of network, compute, and machine learning applications, to address the ever-growing needs of modern datacenters. Xilinx Versal SoCs are highly integrated devices. They feature ARM-based cores for traditional processing, but also integrate a myriad of additional technologies…
Read MoreSan Jose-based adaptable chip manufacturer Xilinx announced an update to its line-up of SmartNICs today, that leverages and array of new technologies. You can think of SmartNICs as intelligent Network Interface Cards that are targeted at the ever-changing and scaling needs of cloud data centers and high-performance compute applications.
Read MoreAs part of its evolving strategy, Silicon Valley bellwether Xilinx has been integrating this adaptive technology into platform accelerator solutions for machine learning, as well as domain specific architecture solutions that incorporate various compute resources like ARM cores, high speed IO and even RF functions.
Read MoreAt the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) currently underway at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, Xilinx is showing off a brand new member of its adaptable data center accelerator family, the Alveo U50. The Xilinx Alveo U50 is built on the company’s UtlraScale+ FPGA architecture, and targets scale-out and domain-specific acceleration of a multitude of data center workloads.
Read MoreAnother Silicon Valley bellwether just made the jump to 7nm semiconductor process technology and this time the cutting-edge chip tech is being employed on new breed of SoC (System On Chip) that can adapt to all kinds of compute and machine learning applications.
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