gnuarm.del...@gmail.com <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 12:05:09 PM UTC-4, claudio...@gmail.com wrote:
> > https://fpgaer.tech/?pV1
> 
> Maybe I'm just old, but it seems to me "new" in the FPGA world is not very
> inspiring.  I guess I'm really saying I don't know diddly about '&ldquo;R&rdquo;
> transceiver tiles', CXL v2.0, or "hardened time-sensitive network
> controllers".
> 
> Yup, I'ma gittin' old. 

I think the FPGA market has bifurcated into (at least) two quite distinct
markets:

- the small, low cost, low power segment, where people want a programmable
  chip of the scale of a small CPU like a Z80 or an m68k, maybe in a small
  package like a BGA256.  Quite a lot of crossover with CPLDs.
- the server/etc market where the chips are as complex, expensive and power
  hungry as a modern Xeon

Since being bought by Intel, Altera seemingly have pushed strongly towards
the latter - not terribly surprising given it's Intel.

For the former, I think we increasingly have to look away from Altera and
Xilinx and towards the smaller players like Lattice and Microsemi, and maybe
some of the Chinese firms.

Theo

On Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 12:05:09 PM UTC-4, claudio...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://fpgaer.tech/?p=561

Maybe I'm just old, but it seems to me "new" in the FPGA world is not very inspiring.  I guess I'm really saying I don't know diddly about '&ldquo;R&rdquo; transceiver tiles', CXL v2.0, or "hardened time-sensitive network controllers".  

Yup, I'ma gittin' old. 

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