Intel serves as a contract chips manufacturer , One of the customers is Achronix, which is developing a programmable logic integrated circuits (FPGA, or FPGA). The company published details of its new product, which is called Speedster22i and will be based on 22nm technology in Intel factories .
FPGAs is designed for use in networking equipment standards 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet, and also has a built-in DDR3 memory controller with an effective rate of up to 2133 MHz bus and support PCI Express 3.0. The solution exists in two forms: high-density layout (prefix HD) and high performance (HP).
Chips of the first category, in turn, have four species, the largest has 1.1 million lookup tables and 144 Mb of RAM, which is placed on the chip. These FPGAs are positioned as a solution for switches and network bridges, which require high bandwidth. For HP the typical clock frequency is 1.5 GHz, while the largest has 250,000 changed lookup tables, and 64 Mbps onboard memory solution is optimized for applications requiring intensive processing of streaming data, and based on proprietary mechanisms self-synchronizing memory.
Achronix says that Speedster22i will be 40% faster and 50% less than competitors chip who rely on 28 nm technology standards. The first samples of FPGA Speedster22i will be released in the third quarter 2012. The entire range of solutions will be available only in the first quarter next year.