A team of researchers at Microsoft have been investigating the use of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)—chips that can be rewired dynamically using software—to accelerate the Bing search engine.

When it comes to speeding up computationally intensive workloads, GPUs are not the only game in town. FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) are also gaining traction in data centers. While companies ...

In recent years, FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) have become increasingly attractive as signal processing engines, sometimes used alone and sometimes in conjunction with a processor chip. The ...

BDTI recently completed an in-depth analysis of FPGAs' suitability for DSP applications. We found that, in some high-performance signal processing applications, FPGAs have several significant ...

Microsoft Corp. is diving deeper into the chip business in hopes of boosting its prospects in artificial intelligence. The software giant is continuing its development of field-programmable gate ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe writes that FPGAs provide an early insight into possibile architectural specialization options for HPC and machine learning.

The computer industry has been driven by a simple formula that states computing power will double every 18 months. This is the essence of Moore’s Law and it has meant that software has been able to ...

FPGAs, like GPUs, have changed significantly from their initial inception that took a narrower view of the solution space. They’ve morphed from a collection of gates and routing to taking on jobs that ...

Over the course of the last year in particular, particularly following Intel’s acquisition of FPGA maker, Altera, field programmable gate array have risen to the fore as a potential accelerator cure ...

FPGAs have long been used in the early stages of any new digital technology, given their utility for prototyping and rapid evolution. But with machine learning, FPGAs are showing benefits beyond those ...

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