Achronix Revenues to Grow 700% YoY and Exceed $100M in 2017 as eFPGA outgrows FPGA

[RaghuramanR]

Achronix has announced exemplary performance from its products and its stunning effect on its revenue with a mind boggling 700% growth over previous year.

Achronix has further expounded on its strategy to continue on the three product lines - Speedster, Speedcore, Speedchip.

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Robert Blake, Achronix CEO says "Over the years, different companies have talked about eFPGA products, but Achronix Speedcore was the first eFPGA IP to ship to end customers, and it is a game changer".

Forbes had published an article late last year on the 'Next billion dollar startups' with 8 of the 25 companies expected to cross $100 million in revenues and it is exciting to see Achronix's press release today. Not surprisingly, positive outlook is accompanied with hiring, already reported in Semiwiki.

 

[Daniel Nenni]

Here is the slide deck in case you are interested:

 

[smeyer0028]

I do not understand the advantage of eFPGA. Is it a better type of FPGA semiconductor
cell? Is the design flow from Verilog net lists the same as a normal (say Xilinx) FPGA?

 

[Daniel Nenni]

I do not understand the advantage of eFPGA. Is it a better type of FPGA semiconductor
cell? Is the design flow from Verilog net lists the same as a normal (say Xilinx) FPGA?

eFPGA is an IP block that you can integrate into your design versus a traditional FPGA which is a chip. You can also get an FPGA die to include in your chip package. Xilinx used to do this and they may still do. The eFPGA is relatively new but you can read more about it here:

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/section/5455-flex-logix.html

or here:

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/section/6518-menta.html