Microsoft Eyes Expanding FPGA Role
Network chips not keeping pace
Rick Merritt, EETimes
10/23/2014 02:30 PM EDT
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Microsoft is exploring the possibility of putting an FPGA on every server in its datacenters. It’s only a rough concept right now, but it could ease a very real pain point on the horizon.
The company runs more than a million servers, and it sees a network bottleneck coming sometime in the next three years, Kushagra Vaid, vice president of sever engineering at Microsoft, said in a keynote at the Linley Tech Processor Conference here.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- UCIe D2D Adapter & PHY Integrated IP
- Low Dropout (LDO) Regulator
- 16-Bit xSPI PSRAM PHY
- MIPI CSI-2 CSE2 Security Module
- ASIL B Compliant MIPI CSI-2 CSE2 Security Module
Related News
- MIPS Technologies Announces Microsoft Windows CE .NET Will Support
- Bluetooth[tm] Special Interest Group To Be Led By 3Com, Ericsson, Intel, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, And Toshiba
- Microsoft Demonstrates BLUE802™ Technology From Intersil and Silicon Wave During WINHEC 2002
- Microsoft to port Smartphone OS to ARM-10
Latest News
- Quintauris and Elektrobit Partner to Enable Reliable RISC-V Solutions for Automotive
- Wind River Joins the CHERI Alliance and Collaborates with Innovate UK to Accelerate Cybersecurity Innovation
- Arteris and MIPS Partner to Accelerate Development for Physical AI Platforms
- DCD-SEMI expands CryptOne with EdDSA Curve25519 IP core for secure embedded systems
- Syntacore's SCR RISC-V IP Now Supports Zephyr 4.3