About AMD/Xilinx
Xilinx invented the first commercially viable FPGA, a field-programmable gate array, which is a chip whose circuits can be rewired by the customer after manufacture. It was founded in 1984 in Silicon Valley by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt and James Barnett, and was based in San Jose. AMD completed its all-stock acquisition of Xilinx on 14 February 2022, and the products now sit inside AMD. Its Versal family combines programmable logic, Arm processor cores and AI engines on one chip.
AMD/Xilinx was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, CA, United States. It is listed under FPGAs.
Compute Technologies
- FPGAs
What AMD/Xilinx works on
FPGAs
An FPGA, or field-programmable gate array, is a chip whose internal wiring can be changed after it is made. It contains a grid of small logic blocks, memory blocks and programmable connections. Loading a new configuration file, called a bitstream, turns it into a different digital circuit.
