Solarflare: Xilinx buys Solarflare to step up its data center networking game

Specialist field-programmable gate array chipmaker Xilinx Inc. boosted its networking credentials today by acquiring Solarflare Communications Inc. Solarflare uses FPGAs, which are computer chips that can be reprogrammed on the fly to perform specific computing tasks more efficiently, to build smart network interface cards that integrate networking, storage and compute. SmartNICS, as they're called, reduce latency [...]The post Xilinx buys Solarflare to step up its data center networking game appeared first on SiliconANGLE.