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2018/03/19 16:51:59 (permalink)
Xilinx has revealed its adaptive computer acceleration platform (ACAP), which is a new kind of programmable chip for flexible hardware.
 

The company spent more than $1 billion to develop the new chip which it claims is as significant as the invention of FPGAs in the 1980s.  The outfit believes it can broaden the use of programmable chips across a broad set of applications for the era of big data and artificial intelligence. For deep neural network processing, it could achieve a 20-fold increase in performance.
 
The ACAP is a dubbed multi-core heterogeneous compute platform which is changed at the hardware level to adapt to the needs of a wide range of applications and workloads. An ACAP can adapt dynamically during operations, and that can make it more efficient in performance and performance-per-watt than central processing units (CPUs) or graphics processing units (GPUs).
 Victor Peng, CEO of Xilinx said the ACAP will have 50 billion transistors and will be a significant technology disruption for the industry.
 

 
https://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/45839-xilinx-releases-programmable-chip 
 
Xilinx says computing after Moore’s Law is called ACAP 

 
https://www.fudzilla.com/...e-s-law-is-called-acap
 
 
 


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    Re: Xilinx releases 7nm programmable chip 2018/03/19 23:38:05 (permalink)
    It will interesting to see if the investment pans out. I'd like to see how a chip like this can compete with competitors chips in AI and deep learning.  

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