As soon as completed the acquisition of the developer of programmable matrices Altera, which was among the first opened access to the 14-nm technology, Intel company start actively to hint at the possibility of combining on the same substrate Xeon server processor and programmable FPGA's.
The first quarter, according to Intel report , brought $ 359 million. Revenue from sales of Altera programmable matrices. The company hastened to declare that already supplies customers Xeon processor samples adjacent to the programmable array. Previously it was thought that the deliveries will begin in the second quarter this year. Even without taking into account the production, co-developed with Intel, revenue in this area grew over the year by about 5%.
Products with the support of Omni-Path Interface company has also supplied customers. "Silicon Photonics" is on line this year. For examples the type of memory 3D XPoint soon add serial products of the appropriate type. The release of this memory will be established at the Intel factory in Dalian, China. Mass production will achieve cost savings and gain an advantage over competitors.