Xilinx
Sign in to saveXilinx, Inc. ( ) was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices. The company is renowned for inventing the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array (FPGA). It also pioneered the first fabless manufacturing model.
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- Company.name
- Xilinx, Inc.
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- File:Xilinx logo.svg
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- XilinxInc-lobby.jpg
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- Headquarters in San Jose, California
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.fate
- Acquired by AMD in 2022 and Xilinx's generic branding phased out in 2023
- Company.location
- San Jose, California, U.S.
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.industry
- Integrated circuits
- Company.products
- FPGAs, CPLDs
- Company.parent
- AMD (2022–2023)
- Company.num_employees
- 4,890 (April 2021)
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Xilinx, Inc. ( ) was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices. The company is renowned for inventing the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array (FPGA). It also pioneered the first fabless manufacturing model.
Xilinx was co-founded by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II in 1984. The company went public on the Nasdaq in 1990. In October 2020, AMD announced its acquisition of Xilinx, which was completed on February 14, 2022, through an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $60 billion. Xilinx remained a wholly owned subsidiary of AMD until the brand was phased out in June 2023, with Xilinx's product lines now branded under AMD.
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