Intel reinforces its position in the asic sector with the acquisition of the company easic

Intel intends to continue expanding its business model, for which it has announced the acquisition of eASIC, a leading provider of ASIC based in Santa Clara, California. It is a company with a history of 19 years leading the ASIC sector.

Intel acquires eASIC, a leading company, to strengthen its presence in this market sector, all the details

The acquisition of eASIC will expand Intel's portfolio of programmable solutions with the addition of structured ASICs. With this operation, Intel ensures a company with a long history of 19 years in which it has managed to offer leading products thanks to its world-class team. Intel plans to end the operation during the third quarter of this year 2018 after having fulfilled the usual closing conditions.

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Intel's short-term intentions are to provide a low-cost automated conversion process from FPGA to structured ASIC. In the longer term, Intel intends to build a new class of programmable chips that take advantage of Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology to combine FPGA and ASIC in one system as a single package.

This combination brings together the best technologies from both companies to offer customers more options, less time to market and lower development costs. Specifically, having a structured ASIC offering will help us better address the high-performance, power-constrained applications that we see many of our customers challenged in market segments such as 4G and 5G wireless networks and IoT.

We will still have to wait long to know the first products born as a result of this acquisition of Intel. Hopefully, over the next few months, the first roadmaps will be announced.

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