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Comment by mastax

8 months ago

Intel acquired Altera in December 2015 for $16.7 billion in cash.

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nativeit  8 months ago

If only someone could have come up with a plausibly profitable use-case for advanced FPGA's and highly performant, efficient, real-time processing or hardware acceleration in those intervening years? What are ya gonna do?

  • xadhominemx  8 months ago

    Well the thesis was DC accelerators but the world went with ASSPs.

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