Intel is shipping an ARM-based FPGA

Intel's followed up on its acquisition of Altera by baking a microprocessor into an field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

The Stratix 10 family brings to fruition Chipzilla's long-rumoured desire to put an x86 on an FPGA ARM core into a 14nm-process FPGA.

The chip is part of the company's push beyond its stagnating PC-and-servers homeland into emerging markets like high-performance computing and software-defined networking. Intel says the quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor helps position the device for “high-end compute and data-intensive applications ranging from data centres, network infrastructure, cloud computing, and radar and imaging systems.”