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Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA

Posted by Soulskill on from the made-to-order dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel is quite clearly serious about offering competition to ARM in the embedded market, and has just announced a new Atom processor series that offers a unique selling point: an integral FPGA processor. Billed as 'the first configurable Intel Atom-based processor,' the Atom E600C series combines an Intel Atom 'Tunnel Creek' chip with an Altera Field Programmable Gate Array — offering, the company claims, significantly more flexibility for ODMs and OEMs."

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  1. double rainbows by __aatirs3925 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm kinda excited for whatever this means. Could somebody please explain? Does this mean Atom processors might be useful now?

    1. Re:double rainbows by allaunjsilverfox2 · · Score: 2, Funny

      And REALLY piss off intel at the same time. Using Intel chips to decode hdcp would be pretty ironic. I mean, Can you imagine using the FPGA to do the grunt work of decoding and then using the cpu to re encode the stream?

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  2. more jobs for me by fpgaprogrammer · · Score: 4, Funny

    yay!

  3. Re:Only certain Virtex-2Pro/4/5s have PowerPC core by squizzar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shush AC, there there, don't let the scary electronics frighten you...

  4. Re:Awesome by Man+On+Pink+Corner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, everyone does that. AMD/ATI does it, Nvidia does it, IBM does it, Motorola used to do it, and if Apple ever designed/manufactured anything themselves, they would do it, as well.

    Dude, WTF? If Apple were any more vertically-integrated they'd own their own African tantalum mine.