AMD’s chip products have always been hailed as the conscience of the industry. This time AMD has done another good thing to make users feel AMD Yes. The company announced that it will extend the life of its Xilinx 7 series devices to 2035, providing a total of long-term Backed by up to 25 years, these products were first released more than 10 years ago.
Xilinx, previously the world’s number one FPGA chip vendor, was acquired by AMD in the past two years and has become a killer app for AMD’s expansion into markets such as automotive electronics, industrial applications, and data centers. Customers in these market segments require longer product lifetimes, often requiring 15-year lifecycles, with many products also supporting longer lifecycles.
Xilinx 7 series devices include multiple products, some of which were released in 2011. Normally, support has almost expired in two years. Now AMD announced that it has extended to 2035, providing a total of 25 years of product support life. , the products involved are as follows:
Spartan-7 FPGAs deliver high performance per power in a small package
Artix-7 FPGAs provide high transceiver bandwidth with low power consumption
Zynq-7000 SoC combines the software programmability of an Arm® processor with the hardware programmability of an FPGA
AMD emphasizes that this move is based on the industry’s general supply chain challenges in 2022 and beyond, making it more important than ever to decide which device to design for in a project. If the selected device reaches the end of its life cycle after one year, the design cost can be quite high.
