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	            <title><![CDATA[Get ready to wave a fond farewell to Spartan and Virtex FPGAs from Xilinx: Why two families make sense (or should that be cents?) ]]></title>
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	            	            For years both Xilinx and Altera have marketed two distinct product families to serve the different needs of customers.  The flagship Virtex products are positioned as the fastest with all the latest features, while the Spartan products serve less demanding cost conscious applications.  Makes sense.

Then look at the price for 1000 logic elements in each family and you find a massive disparity.  Distributor web sites show that the Virtex-6 parts are priced at around $10 per 1k logic elements and the Spartan-6 at below $1.50.  So for the added speed and features customers pay around 6X.  Xilinx earn around 60% of their revenue from Virtex families and 25% from Spartan.  It would be commercial suicide to combine them.

(The above points are discussed more fully in the FPGA Market Report that I have just released.   Anyone wanting to find out more can visit: www.high-tech-marketing.co.uk/FPGA )
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                <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:12:23 -0600</pubDate>
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	            <title><![CDATA[Get ready to wave a fond farewell to Spartan and Virtex FPGAs from Xilinx: I vote for Spandex]]></title>
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	            	            Flexibility, performance... all the qualities Xilinx wants to be associated with! :)	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:15:17 -0600</pubDate>
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	            <title><![CDATA[Get ready to wave a fond farewell to Spartan and Virtex FPGAs from Xilinx: Yup, got my attention....]]></title>
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	            	            ...but my lips are sealed. Stay tuned.

- Bruce	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:21:32 -0600</pubDate>
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