San Jose, Calif. — Achronix Semiconductor Corp. today announced strategic accessto Intel Corporation’s 22 nanometer (nm) process technology, and plans to developthe most advanced Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
The Achronix Speedster22i FPGA family will shatter existing limitations of FPGAs,allowing cost effective production of high performance devices over 2.5M LUTs insize, equivalent to an ASIC of over 20 million gates.
Taking advantage of the performance and power savings of Intel’s 22nm processtechnology, Speedster22i will also extend the boundaries of FPGA speed and powerefficiency, enabling as much as 300% higher performance, 50% lower power, and40% lower cost than any other FPGA in any other process technology.
Achronix Speedster22i will be suitable for a wide range of applications in thetelecommunication, networking, industrial and consumer markets and will enableemerging applications such as 100G, 400G Ethernet networking and LTE mobilecommunications. Additionally, Speedster22i will be the first commercial FPGA familythat can be manufactured in the United States of America, making it the idealplatform for military and aerospace applications requiring “on shore” silicon.
“Intel’s manufacturing strengths and lead in process technology offers leadership cost,performance and power efficiency benefits, giving Intel and our manufacturingcustomers such as Achronix an opportunity to design products with superiorcapabilities,” said Sunit Rikhi, vice president, Technology and Manufacturing Group,Intel.
“Intel has the best process technology in the world and we are privileged to haveformed this strategic relationship, which enables simultaneous improvements inspeed, power, density and cost,” said John Lofton Holt, CEO of Achronix. “Thecombination of the advanced 22nm process from Intel and the advanced FPGAtechnology from Achronix enables Speedster22i to eclipse other FPGA solutionsexpected to hit the market in the next few years.”
About Achronix Semiconductor
Achronix Semiconductor is a privately held fabless corporation based in San Jose,California. Achronix builds the world’s fastest field programmable gate arrays(FPGAs) capable of up to 1.5 GHz peak performance. Achronix has sales offices andrepresentatives in the United States, Europe, China, Japan, and Korea, and hasresearch and design offices in Ithaca, N.Y., and Bangalore, India. Find out more athttp://www.achronix.com.
