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by rwmj 1996 days ago
About *!$% time! I was hoping Intel would do something like this when they acquired Altera a few years back. Does anyone know why Intel acquired Altera?
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Almost the same reason someone buys a Peloton bike or rusted old Porsche. Because someone had a dream last night and have the money.
chuckle This is true. As far as I can see (as a hardware engineer frequently doing FPGA stuff) The Intel/Altera combo has not produced any new products nor yielded any customer benefit beyond what would have happened if the two companies had remained independent. But I'll bet the "business strategists" at each company who thought this one up made a pile of money from the deal.
AFAIK there exist some Xeon + FPGA chips. No clue about availability though...
Are they connected by the pcie bus though?

https://www.xes-inc.com/