Thursday, November 24th 2022
AMD to Increase Xilinx FPGA Prices by up to 25%
Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), now part of AMD, are always in demand in the semiconductor industry. Today, AMD has shared a letter to Xilinx customers that the selected FPGA device series will receive an 8-25% price increase. Citing AMD's investment into the supply chain, along with increased prices from the suppliers, Xilinx FPGAs will get more expensive. From January 9, 2023, the cost of the Spartan 6 series will increase by 25%, the price of the Versal series will not increase, and all other Xilinx products will increase by 8%. Interestingly, the older series manufactured on 40-28 nm nodes will increase while the latest Versal series doesn't experience any change.
Regarding lead times, the 16 nm UltraScale+ series, 20 nm UltraScale series, and 28 nm 7 series all take 20 weeks from order to delivery, which will remain until the third quarter of 2023. You can read the entire document below.
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via ComputerBase.de
Regarding lead times, the 16 nm UltraScale+ series, 20 nm UltraScale series, and 28 nm 7 series all take 20 weeks from order to delivery, which will remain until the third quarter of 2023. You can read the entire document below.
15 Comments on AMD to Increase Xilinx FPGA Prices by up to 25%
Master optical input of whatever CPU architecture you are running, storage interface is built onto the sold state or mechanical storage unit, memory is built onto the CPU “card”, GPU is essentially the same, generic audio or whatever card you want. Sub processors for dedicated tasks, maybe a few stackable add on cards for FPGAs.
Cheap motherboards as they are essentially power hubs with optical backbones and a few data traces and minimal I-O.
That's DE10 Nano from Intel. Risen in price by about 300% since 2019
It makes sense for a fab's business model, the newer nodes are costing more and more due to the ever-more-expensive EUV machines from ASML, and since the older nodes are predominantly the highest volume the fabs see them as an easy way to make cash to put into the newer nodes.
I moved to ARTIX-7 based on heads up from AMD, which is cheaper and more capable but like all new FPGAs has power sequence requirements and more supply rails which are always a pain. This is on 22nm
www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga.html
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/fpga.html
All optical needs to do is become simpler and cheaper than copper traces and reduce chip complexity and traces, termination and other issues are already requiring additional SMCs next to PCIe slots.
Of course, GF is raising its prices too, by (you guessed it) 8%.