Well, it’s hard to blame the folks at Xilinx for being a tad exuberant with regard to the fact that they’ve clocked-up 200+ design wins in the six months since they began shipping their 28nm 7 Series ...

There are no more regulatory roadblocks standing in the way of AMD acquiring Xilinx, a powerhouse in field programmable chip array (FPGA) designs, in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion.

Given AMD's Xilinx acquisition, questions arise about who will hold FPGA leadership going forward. Intel Agilex FPGA achieves 30-50% higher performance and 2x performance per watt than Xilinx Versal.