The big announcement last week was Intel opening up its 22nm manufacturing facilities to an outside company. Even better it’s an FPGA company. There are literally hundreds of write ups on this landmark event so it is definitely blog worthy. But what does it really mean? I have read (5) possibilities:

(1) Intel enters the FPGA business

(2) Intel enters the foundry business

(3) Intel ramps advanced processes with FPGA technology

(4) Intel adds FPGA muscle to Atom

(5) Intel wants Achronix asynchronous logic IP