New AMD Versal SoCs Deliver Big Bandwidth Wins Via On-Package LPDDR5X

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A lot of our regular readers are probably perfectly familiar with AMD's Versal series of "adaptive system on chips," but I'm willing to bet there are just as many of you going "AMD what now?" after seeing the headline. Versal is primarily AMD's family of FPGAs, but calling them that is a bit reductive. They're hyper-specialized mega-chips that integrate a large and fast Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with Arm CPU cores, network controllers, PCI Express, CXL, and their own memory interface. Now, a revised version of the second-generation chips brings the memory on-package, too.

DIY PC guys and general computing enthusiasts may not be super interested in Versal because these chips have a lot of capabilities that simply don't apply to common consumer PC use cases. That's not what they're for, though. Versal chips are used in embedded applications like the automotive world, aerospace and defense, and the telecom...

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