Intel Corp. has started shipping early access customers its first Agilex field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed for applications such as networking, 5G and accelerated data analytics.
The first customers for the FPGAs include Colorado Engineering Inc., Mantaro Networks, Microsoft and Silicom.
The Agilex FPGAs offer significant gains in performance and low latency over previous generations of devices. They also offer reduced power consumption and high-speed interfacing capabilities for the creation of higher bandwidth networks and accelerated artificial intelligence and other analytics performed at the edge, in the cloud and throughout the network.
The FPGAs use several Intel technologies such as second-generation HyperFlex fabric built on 10 nm process and heterogeneous 3D silicon-in-package with embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) technology. These technologies allow Intel to integrate analog, memory, custom computing, custom I/O and eASIC device tiles into a single package along with the FPGA fabric.
