
Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake for $8.75bn
Intel first acquired the FPGA chip company in 2015 for $16.7bn
Intel first acquired the FPGA chip company in 2015 for $16.7bn
Company also updates its AI software suite, introduces new package options for MAX 10 FPGAs
Almost a year since spinout was first announced
The business will be overseen by former head of Intel’s Data Center and AI unit
Xeon Scalable 6138P marries Altera’s Arria 10 GX with Intel’s CPU cores
And will offer edge deployments of its ‘Project Brainwave’ servers
Stratix 10 SX represents an uneasy truce between competing chip architectures
As it looks to encourage wider adoption of workload acceleration technology
While Microsoft makes large claims about its gate arrays
Programmable chips could bolster Intel’s data center position