Semiconductor Engineering

FPGAs Find New Workloads In The High-Speed AI Era

FPGAs are finding new applications in the age of artificial intelligence, high-speed wireless communications, medical and life science technology, and in complex chip architectures where they can ...
Business Wire

Altera Closes Silver Lake Investment to Become World’s Largest Pure-play FPGA Solutions Provider

SAN JOSE, Calif. & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altera Corporation, a leader in FPGA innovations, today announced that Silver Lake, a global leader in technology investing, has completed its ...
Network World

The FPGA turns 40. Where does it go from here?

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first commercially available field-programmable gate array processor, otherwise known as the FPGA. The FPGA is a type of semiconductor that can be ...
Forbes

From Mars To Retro Gaming: 40 Years In And FPGAs Continue To Blaze A Trail

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. AMD is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Field ...
The TRADE

FPGAs and the future of high-frequency trading technology

John Courtney, Product Development Engineer, and Micheal McGuirk, Senior Manager, Product Development Engineering at AMD, delve into the evolution of ultra-low latency solutions for high-frequency ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between the Palladium Emulator and an FPGA for PCIe Debug?

PCI-SIG’s Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Gen5 (PCIe Gen5) is a system protocol used primarily for data transfers at high rates in systems. A transfer rate of 32 Gb/s can be achieved by PCIe ...
Electronic Design

Small-Form-Factor FPGA Destined for Low-Power Apps

How Agilex 3 enhances AI designs. How Altera addresses AI, security, and longevity. How 12.5-Gb/s transceivers help improve FPGA designs. The Agilex 3 FPGA family almost doubles the performance of ...
Digi Times

FPGA vs ASIC: Altera CEO highlights FPGA's advantage in AI era

Embedded World 2025 officially commenced this week in Nuremberg, Germany, with Sandra Rivera, CEO of FPGA company Altera, delivering the keynote address. In her presentation, Rivera discussed key ...
Network World

Altera targets low-latency AI edge applications with new FPGA products

Altera is also expanding the MAX 10 FPGA family with new package options. The MAX 10 10M40 and 10M50 product lines are now offered in variable pitch BGA packages. This new package option significantly ...
Polygon

Handsome PlayStation clone up for $180 pre-order

You may recognize Taki Udon from his retro gaming YouTube channel, but last year he started a company to manufacture gaming hardware, including a much-cheaper variant of the DE10 board behind the ...
TechSpot

SuperStation One reimagines PS One with open-source FPGA hardware

In a nutshell: Retro Remake is now accepting pre-orders for the SuperStation One, an open-source FPGA clone of Sony's PS One console (itself, a redesigned version of the original PlayStation). Billed ...
Ars Technica

New FPGA-powered retro console re-creates the PlayStation, CD-ROM drive optional

Retro game enthusiasts may already be acquainted with Analogue, a company that designs and manufactures updated versions of classic consoles that can play original games but also be hooked up to ...