FYI - Intel Acquires Altera

[Aaron J. Grier]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 01:31:06PM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On 6/1/2015 1:29 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> >Yes, this has been brewing for awhile. The most likely outcome here
> >is a new line of Intel chips with cache-coherent FPGA logic for
> >accelerators.
> 
> They have shown (shipped?) some Xeons with FPGA.

An integrated Xeon+FPGA part was publically announced at the Gigaom
conference back in June 2014, and there are currently in-socket FPGA
modules for the Romley platform (Ivy Bridge) available.

(Disclaimer: I work for Intel on this project.)

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