With its $400 million acquisition of Solarflare, Xilinx is bringing important server-networking intellectual property in house. The move enables it to offer Solarflare's FPGA-based network interface cards (NICs) and move up the value chain. This vertical-integration step is similar to the company's introduction last year of Alveo cards for server compute acceleration (see MPR 2/18/19, "Xilinx Delivers Server Acceleration"). Xilinx is paying a premium price, however, for privately held Solarflare.
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