After Intel bought Altera, the reports about AMD in talks to acquire Xilinx bring an end to the long reign of what many semiconductor industry watchers called the Coke and Pepsi era of the FPGA world.

There are no more regulatory roadblocks standing in the way of AMD acquiring Xilinx, a powerhouse in field programmable chip array (FPGA) designs, in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion.

You would think yesterday's unveiling of Zen 3 would be AMD's biggest news this week, along with a performance tease of its upcoming Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. Arguably even bigger, however ...

AMD’s been on a roll with its laptop, desktop, and server chips over the past few years. Now the company is apparently taking aim at the FPGA space. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, ...

The deal, which we discussed earlier this month, will give AMD access to new markets that it hasn't previously played in, including FPGAs and artificial intelligence. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

AMD will soon acquire Xilinx, a chip manufacturer that specialises in custom chips, such as FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) and SoCs (system-on-chips). The deal announced today will see the ...

AMD could buy chipmaker Xilinx for more than $30 billion as early as next week, The Wall Street Journal reports. The deal would give AMD in-house FPGA technology and boost its prowess in data center ...

The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns ...

AMD celebrated a successful third-quarter 2020 today with the $35 billion acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Xilinx, which expands the company's technology portfolio as it takes on rival Intel. "Xilinx ...

News this morning that AMD has reached an agreement to acquire Xilinx for $35 Billion in stock. The move to gobble up the leading company in the FPGA industry should come as no surprise for many ...

AMD could buy the FPGA maker to counter Intel's takeover of Altera. Xilinx sells field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to a wide range of industries. Unlike traditional chips, FPGAs can be ...

You can have a strategy, but you can’t buy one. Nothing illustrates this principle more than the networking buying binges that both Intel and AMD went on nearly a decade ago, which did not really ...