Watch out Intel and Nvidia, AMD just made a game-changing acquisition – TechRadar Singapore

AMD is set to acquire little-known semiconductor firm Xilinx for $35 billion, making this its largest acquisition to date.
The deal is expected to close by the end of 2021 and will serve to ratchet up competition with Intel and Nvidia in the highly lucrative datacenter market.
Xilinx specializes in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) – a type of semiconductor that can be altered even once they have been deployed. This level of programmability often makes them slower than GPUs or CPUs, but also…

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