Xilinx and Samsung announce Adaptable Computational Storage Drives
Published in Cloud


Industry's First

What the smart NIC did for the networking industry might be what SmartSSD powered by Xilinx FPGA might do for the storage industry. The company just announced its fully customizable and scalable SmartSSD computational storage platform. The general idea behind it moves to compute closer to storage for accelerated data processing speed and efficiency.

Xilinx introduces breakthrough Zynq RFSoC DFE
Published in Network
Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:57

Xilinx introduces breakthrough Zynq RFSoC DFE


For Mass 5G Radio Deployments

Xilinx is a rather big player in 5G infrastructure with its very attractive Zynq RFSoC, and today the company announced a new Zynq RFSoC DFE to help accomplish the evolving standard of 5G NR.

AMD announces plans to acquire Xilinx
Published in News
Wednesday, 28 October 2020 11:58

AMD announces plans to acquire Xilinx


$35 billion biggest to date

News that AMD might acquire Xilinx was quite a surprise after the Nvidia–ARM consolidation, but not surprising. Using current stock and market value increase, AMD decided to make a strategic decision to play better in the data center, 5G, automotive, and fight against the Intel–Altera alliance.

AMD will most likely buy Xilinx
Published in News
Friday, 16 October 2020 10:45

AMD will most likely buy Xilinx


Data center strategy

It is impossible to get a comment from either AMD or Xilinx on this matter, but as far as we could ask around, AMD is going to attempt to buy Xilinx. The move will help the company’s data center strategy, and it is carefully targeted.

Xilinx and Continental announce 4D radar
Published in Transportation
Thursday, 24 September 2020 11:47

Xilinx and Continental announce 4D radar


Ten times more raw data power

Radar has become a crucial part of new car design, and Xilinx is the leader in this market. Together with Tier 1 OEM manufacturer Continental, Xilinx announced the new Advanced Radar Sensor (ARS) 540 with the Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC platform.

Xilinx announces T1 5G O-RAN card
Published in Network
Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:39

Xilinx announces T1 5G O-RAN card


Multi-function for Baseband Unit market

5G is one of these big vectors that will entirely change our lives and industries in many ways that one cannot even imagine. Xilinx will play a big part in that market as it just announced shipping of a Multi-Function telco accelerator card for growing 5G O-RAN virtual baseband unit markets.

Xilinx scores Subaru design win
Published in Transportation
Thursday, 20 August 2020 09:46

Xilinx scores Subaru design win


The stereo camera powered by Zync MPSoC

Xilinx is number two in automotive cameras, and the company just scored a significant Subaru design win being the choice for the latest generation Subaru EyeSight.

Mars Rover Perseverance runs Xilinx
Published in AI
Friday, 31 July 2020 10:35

Mars Rover Perseverance runs Xilinx


2020 Rover has computer vision and 18X faster performance

Earlier in May 2020, we had a chance to chat with Minal Sawant, Space System Architect at Xilinx, and learned a lot about the top-notch 20 nm Space-Grade Radiation Tolerant (RT) Kintex UltraScale XQRKU060FPGA. Mars Rover Perseverance has just launched onboard on an Atlas V-541, and it is a crucial part of the Mars 2020 mission.

24.2 Nanosecond Electronic Trading World Record
Published in Network


Xilinx and LDA Technologies

Time is money, and the recent record set by Xilinx and LDA Technologies in Electronic Trading is a world record

Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge made
Published in AI


Substantial prizes

Xilinx and Hackster.io Team Up For Inaugural Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge