Stefan Mileschin

7nm first adaptive compute platform

Xilinx has confirmed that the Versal, product developed under Everest condemned was taped out last year, and today the company has confirmed that the first tier-one customers are getting the first Versal AI core products.

Shipping to tier-one customers is an important step for this innovative product as the Versal Adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), combines a new category of heterogeneous compute device that can exceed the conventional CPU, GPU or FPGA approach.

An ACAP represents a highly integrated, multicore, heterogeneous compute platform that can be changed at both the hardware and software levels to dynamically adapt to the needs of a wide range of applications and workloads in data center, automotive, 5G wireless, wired and defense markets. The key advantage is that the hardware can be adjusted just as in the traditional FPGA approach, but there are silicon paths optimized for the AI that will do things much faster than any traditional FPGA. Versal ACAP enables you to get the best of both worlds, hardware, and software programmability.
https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/48901-f...ng-versal-acap