Achronix 6 billion-transistor FPGAs: Take two

Junko Yoshida, EETimes
12/4/2012 10:45 AM EST

PARIS – Achronix’s new 6 billion-transistor device, the first FPGA to be built on a 22-nm manufacturing process at Intel Corp. and promised to start sampling this quarter, won’t arrive in the market until the first quarter of 2013.

The HD 1000, the first in the Achronix family of FPGAs designated Speedster 22i HD, was supposed to reach the market before the end of this year.

Achronix Chairman John Lofton Holt (left) said the delay stemmed from “our design issues." He called the delay “disappointing.”