Technology AMD axes Xilinx CPLD chips less than two years after acquisition

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AMD has issued a product discontinuation notice for many programmable logic devices the company currently offers, including all CoolRunner and CoolRunner II CPLDs, as well as Spartan II and Spartan 3 FPGAs. The notice explicitly states that "no direct replacement" has been made for any of the axed CPLDs or FPGAs. Should AMD choose to not make any replacements in the future, it would mark the end of the company's CPLD products.

While AMD had made CPLDs in its early history, its current line-up is formed by Xilinx, which was acquired by the red team in 2022. Xilinx's primary offering was its FPGAs, but the company also made CoolRunner-branded CPLDs. When it first bought Xilinx, AMD seemingly embraced CPLDs. Its product page for CPLDs reads "as the market leader in programmable logic solutions, AMD provides a total solution to a designer's CPLD needs." The company even rewrote some history, with the same page stating CoolRunner II CPLDs were "created by AMD."

AMD axes Xilinx CPLD chips less than two years after acquisition, cites declining run-rate and supplier sustainability as reasons

Older FPGAs are dead too.

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