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Since last month's announcement of AMD's Smart Access Memory, a function that enables AMD CPUs to access all VRAMs in the Radeon GPU, many were worried that the feature would only work inside the AMD ecosystem. Fortunately, this is not going to be the case. AMD is opening up compatibility with both Intel and Nvidia platforms.

At SC20, Intel revealed that it would make its Xe-HP high-performance discrete GPUs available to early-access developers. Notably, the latest chips have been installed at the Argonne National Laboratory. They will act as a transitional production vehicle for the future (2022) Aurora supercomputer, for the delayed Intel Xe-HPC ('Ponte Vecchio') GPUs computational backbone of the device.

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The first discrete Intel Xe DG1 GPUs are also delivered to systems available before the end of the year.

After a few weeks of rumor, as well as a few years of hearing, AMD went first to the complete acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx. The deal includes an all-stock exchange, exploiting AMD's sizeable share price to allow an equivalent $143 per Xilinx share – current AMD shareholders will still own 74 percent of the merged business. In comparison, Xilinx shareholders will own 26 percent. The combined $135 billion entity would total 13,000 engineers and increase AMD's total addressable market to $110 billion. The acquisition's main reasons are assumed to be Xilinx's adaptive computing solutions for the data center label.