SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced a new Data Center Ecosystem
Investment Program to be administered through its corporate venture
arm, Xilinx Technology Ventures. Investments made through this
initiative will focus primarily on technologies that expand
Xilinx's data center products and offerings and ignite industry
innovation, time to market advantage, and lower overall cost of
ownership. The new program targets solutions for emerging workload
applications such as machine learning, image and video processing,
data analytics, storage data base acceleration, and network
acceleration.
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As part of this program, Xilinx recently completed its first
data center ecosystem investment in TeraDeep, Inc., a company
specializing in convolutional neural networks-based machine
learning. TeraDeep is widely recognized for its state-of-the-art
deep learning expertise and acceleration technology which runs on
Xilinx® FPGAs. Through this investment, TeraDeep will continue to
work closely with Xilinx to further optimize its solutions on
Xilinx-based FPGA boards.
"Through this investment program, we want to help enable
start-ups that create libraries, middleware, and application
software to accelerate the broad deployment of Xilinx FPGA
solutions in the Data Center," said Greer
Person, senior director, Corporate Business
Development. "In addition to funding, our portfolio companies
often gain access to Xilinx business and technology experts,
products, and design environments to help them create more
competitive solutions, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce
development costs."
"Our customers are broadly deploying Xilinx FPGAs for
application acceleration. We recognize the need for vibrant
ecosystems that will spark innovation and support the full breadth
and depth of solutions our markets require," said Hemant Dhulla,
vice president of Data Center and Wired Communications Business at
Xilinx. "I am pleased that we are increasing our investment
activity with promising young companies that will drive ingenuity
and contribute to ecosystem growth and TeraDeep is the perfect
example of a company doing just that."
For more information about this investment initiative or to
contact Xilinx Technology Ventures, please visit
http://www.xilinx.com/about/technology-investments.html.
About Xilinx Technology Ventures
Xilinx Technology
Ventures is the investment arm of Xilinx, Inc. Its mission is to
identify and invest in early-stage companies developing innovative
new technologies with the potential to help advance Xilinx's
strategic vision and create value for Xilinx shareholders and
customers.
About Xilinx in Data Centers
Only Xilinx provides a
flexible, standards-based solution that combines software
programmability with hardware optimization for acceleration of
compute workloads, storage, and networking with the security needed
for the next generation of cloud computing. Xilinx enables
heterogeneous compute architecture with high throughput, low
latency and best performance/watt relative to CPU, GPU, and NPU
based alternatives.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All
Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely
enables applications that are both software defined and hardware
optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing,
SDN/NFV, Video/Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more
information, visit www.xilinx.com
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