News AMD axes old Xilinx CPLD chips less than two years after acquisition, cites declining run-rate and supplier sustainability as reasons

[Admin]

AMD has issues a discontinuation notice of the CPLD products that the company acquired alongside Xilinx.

AMD axes old Xilinx CPLD chips less than two years after acquisition, cites declining run-rate and supplier sustainability as reasons : Read more

 

[kjfatl]

These parts are ancient. For Spartan 3, most customers knew this was happening 5 years ago when Xilinx bumped up the prices. Customers have the option of a last time buy and migration to Spartan 7 is not that difficult in most cases.

 

[HaninTH]

A CPLD, or complex programmable logic device, is a processor that's largely similar to an FPGA, or field programmable field array.

This should be Field Programmable GATE array.