Intel Editorial: Intel to Acquire eASIC – Adding to Its Programmable Solutions Talent and Capabilities
July 12 2018 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Intel Plans to Expand Its Portfolio to
Include Structured ASICs, which are Well Suited for
High-Performance and Power-Constrained Applications
The following is an opinion editorial provided by Dan McNamara
of Intel Corporation.
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Dan McNamara (left), corporate vice
president and general manager of Intel's Programmable Solutions
Group, stands with eASIC CEO, Ronnie Vasishta, outside Intel
Corporation headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Intel on
Thursday, July 12, 2018, announced plans to acquire custom
chipmaker eASIC. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Intel is competing to win in the largest-ever addressable market
for silicon, which is being driven by the explosion of data and the
need to process, analyze, store and share it. This dynamic is
fueling demand for computing solutions of all kinds. Of course
Intel is known for world-class CPUs, but today we offer a broader
range of custom computing solutions to help customers tackle all
kinds of workloads – in the cloud, over the network and at the
edge. In recent years, Intel has expanded its products and
introduced breakthrough innovations in memory, modems,
purpose-built ASICs, vision processing units and field programmable
gate arrays (FPGAs).
FPGAs are experiencing expanding adoption due to their
versatility and real-time performance. These devices can be
programmed anytime – even after equipment has been shipped to
customers. FPGAs contain a mixture of logic, memory and digital
signal processing blocks that can implement any desired function
with extremely high throughput and very low latency. This makes
FPGAs ideal for many critical cloud and edge applications, and
Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group revenue has grown double
digits as customers use FPGAs to accelerate artificial
intelligence, among other applications.
More: Programmable Solutions Group News
Customers designing for high-performance, power-constrained
applications in market segments like wireless, networking and the
internet of things (IoT) sometimes begin deployments with FPGAs for
fast time-to-market and flexibility. They then migrate to devices
called structured ASICs, which can be used to optimize performance
and power-efficiency. A structured ASIC is an intermediary
technology between FPGAs and ASICs. It offers performance and
power-efficiency closer to a standard-cell ASIC, but with the
faster design time and at a fraction of the non-recurring
engineering costs associated with ASICs.
Today, I’m excited to announce that Intel plans to expand its
programmable solutions portfolio to include structured ASICs by
acquiring eASIC®, a leading structured ASICs provider headquartered
in Santa Clara, California. eASIC has a proven, 19-year success
record, leading products and a world-class team, which will join
Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group. The addition of eASIC will
help us meet customers’ diverse needs of time-to-market, features,
performance, cost, power and product life cycles.
This combination brings together the best-in-class technologies
from both companies to provide customers with more choice, faster
time-to-market and lower development costs. Specifically, having a
structured ASICs offering will help us better address
high-performance and power-constrained applications that we see
many of our customers challenged with in market segments like 4G
and 5G wireless, networking and IoT. We can also provide a
low-cost, automated conversion process from FPGAs (including
competing FPGAs) to structured ASICs.
Longer term, we see an opportunity to architect a new class of
programmable chip that takes advantage of Intel’s Embedded
Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology to combine Intel
FPGAs with structured ASICs in a system in package solution.
Together with partners and customers, Intel and eASIC expect to
deliver industry-leading solutions.
We expect to complete the acquisition in the third quarter of
2018 after customary closing conditions are met. We look forward to
serving eASIC’s current customers and to offering Intel customers a
new solution for unlocking the power of data.
Daniel (Dan) McNamara is corporate vice president and general
manager of the Programmable Solutions Group at Intel
Corporation.
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