Achronix’s Speedcore speeds programmable chip performance by 10X

Achronix is announcing today that its Speedcore technology for programmable chips can improve performance 10-fold, reduce power by 50 percent, and cut costs as much as 90 percent.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has designed field-programmable gate arrays, or semiconductor chips that can be programmed by a customer or designer after the chip is physically manufactured. Such chips come with large blocks of logic that can be configured using a design tool. Of course, Achronix is not the only one in the field — Intel acquired Altera, one of the largest makers of FPGAs, for $16.7 billion in 2015, and another big rival is Xilinx, which had $2.2 billion in revenues in its last fiscal year.