Achronix’s Speedcore speeds programmable chip performance by 10X

Achronix is announcing today that its Speedcore technology for programmable chips can improve performance by 10-fold, reduce power by 50 percent, and cut costs as much as 90 percent.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has designed field-programmable gate arrays, or semiconductor chips that can be programmed by a customer or designer after the chip is physically manufactured. Such chips come with large blocks of logic that can be configured using a design tool. Intel acquired Altera, one