As is known, Intel company has acquired one of the world's largest FPGA-matrices developer - Altera company . The deal to acquisitions completed in the fourth quarter of 2015. One of the objectives of this purchase is that the microprocessor giant wants to cross the processors and programmable matrix. The company in the past has repeatedly created such experimental hybrids. Therefore, Altera's takeover could mean that this initiative has good potential. Built-in array processor will help speed up certain work. In fact, this new level of co-processors that can be programmed to hardware acceleration of current client needs.
The summit Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2016, Intel demonstrated the processor and matrix on the same substrate in a single package. Details were not disclosed, but there is unofficial information that a processor Broadwell EP and the matrix 10 Altera Arria GX. The processor and the matrix may be interconnected via bus QPI. In the second quarter is expected to mass production samples of the decision to make them customers.
In general, Intel is going to develop and release a special library to support a hybrid platform. As planned by Intel, the library should help on the fly to create the necessary applications with minimal effort on the part of programmers. Related Products :
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