Mid-range FPGAs focus on low-cost and low-power consumption.

Under the entanglement of the wave of mergers and acquisitions, semiconductor practitioners are also more cautious. Even the niche FPGA market has been reborn, and the seats that were previously divided by Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, and Microsemi have changed: After being purchased by Intel (Intel) for $16.7 billion, it became the Intel PSG business unit.  The Chinese-funded fund, Canyon Bridge, was incorporated into Lattice for $1.3 billion. And Microsemi was acquired by Actel in the FPGA battle in 2011. It is also rumored that Qualcomm proposed a $15 billion acquisition of Xilinx. Although the pattern is raging, with the rise of the Internet of Things, 5G communication, big data, robots, and drones, the FPGA market has become more promising. According to Gartner, from 2014 to 2023, the average annual growth rate of FPGAs is 7%. For the manufacturers who are among them, how to strategically consolidate their advantages and tactics can be considered from a long-term perspective.

Future competition will develop into platform ecology

Nowadays, the competition for FPGAs has long since deviated from the narrow "product." The "cost-effective" performance of FPGA is the first priority, but in the final analysis, it also needs the cooperation of platform ecology, development tools involving connotation, system-level solutions, and extended channels, marketing and services.

This is also a "full preparation" for this. According to Shakeel Peera, at the software tools level, the Microsomis Libero SoC Design Suite provides a comprehensive and easy-to-learn development tool for developers to increase productivity. 1G Ethernet, 10G Ethernet, DDR memory interfaces, AXI 4 interconnect IP and other popular IPs are already available for deployment in PolarFire FPGAs.

The systematic plan of the United States and the United States and the United States are also "in the chest." It is important to know that Microsemi's acquisition of PMC in the previous year has expanded its business into telecommunications, data centers and cloud computing. Shakeel Peera believes that Microsemi's diversified ASSPs for the communications, storage and industrial markets are a powerful complement to PolarFire FPGAs. For example, the Ethernet networking technology group uses the FPGA to interface with its Ethernet PHY and switch chip, while the timing group uses an FPGA with a phase-locked loop (PLL) to support network timing applications.

This article is from Allicdata Electronics Limited.