SMIC and Efinix Introduce First Quantum Programmable Accelerator Chip Product | Next Year

SMIC December 13, SMIC and Efinix, programmable product platforms and technology innovators, today jointly announced that SMIC 40-nanometer process platform successfully delivered the first Efinix QuantumTM programmable accelerator product samples from the use of This important milestone was achieved with record-breaking efficiencies through product development by SMIC PDT and delivery of product samples as soon as the system became effective, in less than six months. It is estimated that the QuantumTM accelerator products will be available in 2018 In production, for large-scale programmable accelerator market.

'This is the first time that Efinix has cooperated with SMIC and their full support has left a deep impression on us and SMIC's business and technical cooperation with us has helped us to create an important foundation for the successful development of our products.' Zhang Shaoyi, co-founder, CEO and president of Efinix, said: "From now on, we are able to focus on key product development in 2018 and expedite the deployment of our first Quantum accelerator product line to serve the large-scale applications worldwide."

Efinix's Quantum programmable accelerator technology delivers up to four times the area utilization and significantly outperforms traditional programming technologies, and this groundbreaking advantage enables Efinix silicon products to be available in rapidly growing markets such as custom logic, deep learning and computational acceleration Competitiveness.

"SMIC's 40nm low-leakage process platform has been mass-produced for more than five years and has more than 220 products and we are excited to be working with Efinix to develop Quantum's programmable technology on our proven state of the art process technology." SMIC Xu Tianshen, senior vice president of global marketing, said: 'FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) products have great challenges in technology development, but Efinix's Quantum technology has greatly accelerated its development and we look forward to launching the first with Efinix Product line and support future joint development and manufacturing. '

With over 30 years 'experience in the IC industry, Bill Hata, formerly Global Vice President of Global Operations and Engineering at Altera Corporation (now owned by Intel) and now Efinix Consultant, said:' This is the first time I've seen in-industry programmable product development With such high efficiencies, the agnostic nature of the silicon process in the Quantum architecture has instinctively created such efficiencies that, unlike leading FPGAs, do not require special silicon processes to enhance performance and logic device densities.

Efinix is ​​collaborating with a number of customers in the first quarter of 2018 there will be Quantum programmable accelerator chip product details released.