SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is
deploying Xilinx 16nm UltraScale+™ Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(FPGAs) in the new Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) F1
instance type, accelerating genomics, financial analytics, video
processing, big data, security, and machine learning inference
workloads.
In addition to Amazon EC2 F1 instances, AWS also announced an
FPGA Developer Amazon Machine Image (AMI), which is pre-built with
the development tools and scripts including Xilinx's Vivado® Design
Suite and Vivado license.
"We believe FPGAs are going mainstream in the cloud," said
Steve Glaser, senior vice president,
corporate strategy at Xilinx. "The AWS announcement last week is
further evidence that this is happening right now and the momentum
is building."
To learn more about the Amazon EC2 F1 instances web page at
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/, and AWS developer
blog at
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/.
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, 5G Wireless, Embedded Vision, and
Industrial IoT. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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