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- Intel introduces the Intel eASIC N5X, the first all-new structured ASIC to accelerate 5G, cloud, artificial intelligence and edge workloads. The Intel eASIC N5X was announced in November 2020 at the Intel FPGA Technology Day. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
What’s New: At Intel FPGA Technology Day, Intel announced a new, customizable solution to help accelerate application performance across 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud and edge workloads. The new Intel® eASIC N5X is the first structured eASIC family with an Intel® FPGA compatible hard processor system. The Intel eASIC N5X helps customers migrate both their custom logic and designs — using the embedded hard processor in the FPGA — to structured ASICs, bringing benefits like lower unit cost, faster performance and reduced power consumption.
Why It Matters: FPGAs offer the best time-to-market advantage and highest flexibility for customer designs, while ASICs and structured ASIC devices provide the best hardware-optimized performance at the lowest power and cost. FPGAs are ideal for enabling agile innovation and are the fastest path to next-generation technology exploration. The programmability of FPGAs helps customers quickly develop hardware for their specific workloads and adapt to changing standards over time – as happened during the early phases of the 5G rollout and the migration toward open RAN implementations.
The new innovative Intel eASIC N5X devices deliver up to 50% lower core power and lower cost compared to FPGAs, while providing faster time to market and lower non-recurring engineering costs compared to ASICs. This allows customers to create power-optimized, high-performance and highly differentiated solutions. Intel eASIC N5X devices also help customers to meet the key security needs of many applications by incorporating a secure device manager adapted from the Intel® Agilex™ FPGA family, including secure boot, authentication and anti-tamper features.
Intel’s Unique Approach: Intel is the world’s only semiconductor company to offer the complete custom logic continuum of FPGAs, such as Intel Agilex and Intel® Stratix™ 10; structured ASICs, such as Intel eASIC N5X; and ASICs to its customers. This comprehensive data-processing portfolio of customizable logic devices helps enable Intel customers to truly optimize unit cost, performance, power consumption and time to market for their market-specific solutions in a manner that’s unique in the industry.
About Intel FPGA Technology Day: This is a one-day virtual event on Nov. 18, 2020, that brings together Intel executives, partners and customers to showcase the latest Intel programmable products and solutions through a series of keynotes, webinars and demonstrations.
More Context: Intel FPGA Technology Day 2020 (Press Kit) | New Intel Open FPGA Stack Eases Development of Custom Platforms | Intel eASIC Blog | eASIC Product Page (Intel.com)
Tags: 5G, Cloud, eASIC, Edge, FPGA Technology Day 2020, structured ASIC
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