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  • shabby - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    Buy'em out boys!
  • surt - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
  • HStewart - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    I think Intel has a strategic reason for this company, if you think of the hardware needs related to customer circuits and also new designs in graphics.
  • Kevin G - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    This can be seen as a defensive move: this purchase is more along the lines of keeping the Omnitek customers tied to Intel FPGA platforms. The value of this company was more in the IP they licensed than the hardware they designed (which was mostly for development). This is a bit of an ecosystem power play.
  • HStewart - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    But Intel purchase and initially resold Altera FPGA's and now has new designs - my guess is Omnitek will be incorporated into that area of business which site indicates as part of plan.

    I believe but not 100% sure but EMiB and new Foveres stuff came from this group. This appears to be strategic part of future of Intel plans to allow multiple chip processes on single chip.

    It is also interesting that Omnitek is primary using the technology for video industry which we know Intel has major plans coming.
  • ZolaIII - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    It's not nothing new architecturally regarding FPGA's (tho I don't know what they did regarding switches) they both soft blocks for processing in mentioned areas to enable programing of Altera FPGA's with them. FPGA is what you wish it to be as long it can be fit in its programmable gate area.
  • rahvin - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    Intel is moving to a chiplet type design (we just don't know the details yet). They may have plans to expand on their custom CPU market by integrating FPGA chiplets into their CPU's. This would explain a bunch of their custom chip acquisitions over the last few years as they anticipate the ability to cheaply do this integration.
  • Kevin G - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    The hardware will still be Altera but this move means that Intel will be offering the Omnitek soft IP as a purchasing option for them. Basically you can do to Intel as a complete solution for a multi-view processor etc.

    There is still some long term potential with this IP being sold alongside x86 CPUs and GPUs, especially if Intel offers them in a single package. (Xilinx offers their Zynq with hard CPU, hard GPU, some hard IO and the rest of the die allocated for FPGA). Intel being able to provide lots of hard IP alongside powerful FPGAs with an extensive soft IP portfolio is compelling. I just see this move as bolstering the IP side of that equation, Intel already has everything else in the pipeline.
  • Notmyusualid - Sunday, April 21, 2019 - link

    @ shabby

    Hilarious!

    And for those of you who have been living on the moon:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
  • Kevin G - Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - link

    Grrrrrr...... This one hits home for me as I was looking at a nice DP 1.2/HDMI 2.0/SDI-12 G development board.

    I think their IP is used in products like TVone and Christie Digital for their various real time warping effects in their products. These are awesome for blended projection systems.

    I believe that they're being some of the video-over-IP solutions used by the big AV integration players.

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