Achronix Semiconductor has announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with Intel Corporation which will enable it to use Intel’s 22 nanometer (nm) process technology to develop a new range of advanced Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The new Speedster22i FPGA family will be designed to allow cost effective production of high performance devices over 2.5M LUTs in size, equivalent to an ASIC of over 20 million gates.
Taking advantage of the performance and power savings of Intel’s 22nm process technology, the Speedster22i will look to extend the boundaries of FPGA speed and power efficiency, enabling as much as 300% higher performance, 50% lower power, and 40% lower cost than any other FPGA in any other process technology.
The Speedster22i will be suitable for a wide range of applications in the telecommunication, networking, industrial and consumer markets and will enable emerging applications such as 100G, 400G Ethernet networking and LTE mobile communications. Additionally, Speedster22i will be the first commercial FPGA family that can be manufactured in the United States of America, making it suitable for military and aerospace applications requiring “on shore” silicon. According to John Lofton Holt, CEO of Achronix, “Intel has the best process technology in the world which enables simultaneous improvements in speed, power, density and cost. The combination of the advanced 22nm process from Intel and the FPGA technology from Achronix will enable the Speedster22i to eclipse other FPGA solutions expected to hit the market in the next few years.”
