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• Xilinx Selected by Alibaba Cloud for Next-Gen FPGA Cloud Acceleration (Friday Oct. 13, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced at the Computing Conference that Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has chosen Xilinx for next generation FPGA acceleration in their public cloud.
  
  
• Intel FPGAs Power Acceleration-as-a-Service for Alibaba Cloud (Friday Oct. 13, 2017)
  Intel today announced that Intel® field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now powering the Acceleration-as-a-Service of Alibaba Cloud*, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group. The acceleration service, which can be launched from the Alibaba Cloud website, enables customers to develop and deploy accelerator solutions in the cloud for Artificial Intelligence inference, video streaming analytics, database acceleration and other fields where intense computing is required.
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Family Integrating the RF Signal Chain for 5G Wireless, Cable Remote-PHY, and Radar (Tuesday Oct. 03, 2017)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced delivery of its Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC family, a breakthrough architecture integrating the RF signal chain into an SoC for 5G wireless, cable Remote-PHY, and radar.
  
  
• Intel Eases Use of FPGA Acceleration: Combines Platforms, Software Stack and Ecosystem Solutions to Maximize Performance and Lower Data Center Costs (Tuesday Oct. 03, 2017)
  Today, Intel announced a comprehensive hardware and software platform solution to enable faster deployment of customized field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based acceleration of networking, storage and computing workloads.
  
  
• Lattice and Helion Accelerate Embedded Vision Designs with Turnkey ISP Solution (Monday Oct. 02, 2017)
  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions, and HelionVision® today announced the latest solution to expedite embedded vision design and prototyping.
  
  
• SecureRF and Intel Collaboration Delivers Future-Proof FPGA Security Solutions (Wednesday Sep. 27, 2017)
  SecureRF and Intel are collaborating to provide engineers with quantum-resistant authentication and data protection solutions for Intel FPGA-based Internet of Things (IoT) projects.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor's iCE40 FPGA Enables Low Latency and Concurrent Sensor Processing in SteamVR Tracking (Monday Sep. 18, 2017)
  Lattice, the leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions, today announced that Valve has selected Lattice’s low power and low cost iCE40™ FPGA to enable concurrent data capture and processing for its SteamVR™ Tracking.
  
  
• Xilinx Software Defined Development Environment for Data Center Acceleration Now Available on Amazon Web Services (Thursday Sep. 14, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced that its software defined development environment, SDAccel™, is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances.
  
  
• Xilinx Powers Huawei FPGA Accelerated Cloud Server (Wednesday Sep. 06, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced at HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 that Huawei has chosen high performance Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs to power their first FP1 instance as part of a new accelerated cloud service. The Huawei FPGA Accelerated Cloud Server (FACS) is a platform that enables users to develop, deploy and publish new FPGA-based services and applications on Huawei Public Cloud.
  
  
• Intel Delivers Real Time AI in Microsoft's New Accelerated Deep Learning Platform (Thursday Aug. 24, 2017)
  Microsoft has selected Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs as a key hardware accelerator in its new accelerated deep learning platform – code-named Project Brainwave.
  
  
• Baidu Deploys Xilinx FPGAs in New Public Cloud Acceleration Services (Thursday Jul. 06, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced that Baidu has deployed Xilinx FPGA-based application acceleration services in their public cloud. The Baidu FPGA Cloud Server, a new service in Baidu Cloud, features highly efficient Xilinx® Kintex® FPGAs, tools, and the software needed to develop and deploy hardware-accelerated data center applications such as machine learning and data security.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces General Availability of Engineering Samples for its Lowest Power, Cost-Optimized Mid-Range PolarFire FPGAs (Thursday Jun. 29, 2017)
  Microsemi today announced its PolarFire™ field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineering samples (ES) are available for ordering. The PolarFire FPGA family provides the lowest power, cost-optimized mid-range devices spanning from 100K logic elements (LEs) to 500K LEs.
  
  
• Intel FPGA Technology Supports NEC in Face Recognition Technology (Wednesday Jun. 28, 2017)
  NEC relied on Intel Arria® 10 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) operating on Intel Xeon® processor–based servers to increase the performance of its NEC NeoFace* facial recognition engine to a level where an individual can be identified smoothly from a high-resolution image with dozens of faces.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Delivers New Machine Learning and Sensor-to-Cloud Security Solutions for Intelligence at the Edge (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2017)
  Lattice today announced the availability of new reference designs based on its iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA devices to address emerging market requirements and to enable an expedited product development cycle.
  
  
• New Enhancements to Microsemi's Imaging/Video Solution Enable Customers to Leverage Company's Low Power and High Security FPGAs in MIPI CSI-2-Based Camera Systems (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2017)
  Microsemi Corporation today announced new additions to its imaging/video solution supporting the popular Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) camera serial interface (CSI-2).
  
  
• Microsemi Announces SoftConsole v5.1, the World's First Freely Available Windows-Hosted Eclipse Integrated Development Environment Supporting RISC-V Open Instruction Set Architecture (Thursday Jun. 15, 2017)
  Microsemi today announced the release of its SoftConsole version 5.1, the world's first available Windows-hosted Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) for designs utilizing RISC-V open instruction set architectures (ISAs) such as RV32I.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor's ECP5 FPGA Enables Energy-Efficient Embedded Vision Systems at the Edge (Monday Jun. 05, 2017)
  Lattice today announced the implementation of its ECP5 FPGA into embedded vision applications for smart surveillance and automotive applications at the Edge.
  
  
• Microsemi and Intrinsic ID Collaboration Delivers SRAM-PUF in PolarFire FPGAs, Providing Advanced Security (Thursday Jun. 01, 2017)
  Microsemi and Intrinsic ID today announced Intrinsic ID's static random-access memory (SRAM) physical unclonable function (SRAM PUF) is included in Microsemi's new PolarFire™ field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Integration of 56G PAM4 Transceiver Technology into its Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs (Wednesday May. 17, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced integration of 56G PAM4 transceiver technology into its industry-leading Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs. Built upon proven 16nm FinFET+ FPGA fabric, these devices will expand the Virtex product line to drive the next wave of Ethernet deployment and provide seamless migration of existing systems to next-gen backplane, optics, and high performance interconnects.
  
  
• Xilinx and IBM First to Double Interconnect Performance for Accelerated Cloud Computing with New PCI Express Standard (Wednesday May. 17, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced an achievement in PCI Express® Gen4 capability. Together with IBM, the two companies are first to double interconnect performance between an accelerator and CPU through the use of PCI Express Gen4 compared to the existing widely-deployed PCI Express Gen3 standard.
  
  
• Xilinx Debuts Industry-First P4_16 to FPGA Compilation and Introduces New P4-NetFPGA Workflow for Networking Researchers at P4 Industry Events (Monday May. 15, 2017)
  Xilinx announced today it will participate in the 2017 P4 Developer Day and P4 Workshop, May 16 - 17 at Stanford University, debuting its P416 to FPGA compilation and introducing a new P4-NetFPGA workflow for networking researchers.
  
  
• Microsoft Outlines Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning on Intel FPGAs (Monday May. 15, 2017)
  Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich disclosed major advances in Microsoft’s hyperscale deployment of Intel® field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGAs Now in Production (Tuesday May. 09, 2017)
  Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) today announced that its Spartan®-7 family of FPGAs is now available for order and shipping to standard lead times.
  
  
• Microsemi and Synopsys Extend 20-Year OEM Relationship and Collaborate on New PolarFire FPGAs to Deliver Customized Synthesis Support (Thursday May. 04, 2017)
  Microsemi and Synopsys today announced a multi-year extension of their OEM agreement to bring customized field programmable gate array (FPGA) synthesis tools to Microsemi's FPGA customers.
  
  
• Titan IC sets sail to secure the world's major cloud providers (Thursday Apr. 27, 2017)
  Titan IC is working to secure cloud computing using our hardware accelerated regular expression processor for pattern matching and string matching. Titan IC's Helios F1 is an FPGA regular expression (regex) processor hosted on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) F1 Amazon Machine Instance (AMI).
  
  
• Xilinx Delivers Broad Deployment of Dynamic Reconfiguration Technology (Thursday Apr. 20, 2017)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced the 2017.1 release of the Vivado® Design Suite HLx Editions, with broad availability of Partial Reconfiguration technology to enable dynamic field updates and increased systems integration in a broad range of applications such as wired & wireless networking, test & measurement, aerospace & defense, automotive, and data centers.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces General Availability of Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs in Amazon EC2 F1 Instances (Thursday Apr. 20, 2017)
  Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) today announced that its high-performance Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs are available in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances. This instance provides programmable hardware acceleration with FPGAs and enables users to optimize their compute resources for the unique requirements of their workloads.
  
  
• Microsemi Announces Libero SoC v11.8 Software Providing FPGA Designers Mixed Language Simulation and Best-in-Class Debugging Capabilities (Tuesday Apr. 11, 2017)
  Microsemi today announced the release of its latest version of Libero® system-on-chip (SoC) software, version 11.8, a comprehensive suite of field programmable gate array (FPGA) design tools.
  
  
• Xilinx Expands into Wide Range of Vision-Guided Machine Learning Applications with reVISION (Monday Mar. 13, 2017)
  At Embedded World, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced expansion into a wide range of vision guided machine learning applications with the Xilinx® reVISION™ stack
  
  
• Alibaba Collaborating with Intel on an FPGA-based Solution to Help Customers Accelerate Business Applications (Friday Mar. 10, 2017)
  Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), has announced a pilot program with Intel for a cloud-based FPGA (field programmable gate array) acceleration service with the goal of enabling customers to have virtual access to powerful compute resources in the cloud to help them manage business, scientific and enterprise data application workloads more effectively.