SMIC and Efinix™ Quickly Deliver the First Quantum™-Accelerated Silicon Product
Summary
We are excited to be working with Efinix to develop the Quantum programmable technology on our advanced and reliable platform," said Sunny Hui, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing at SMIC."This is the first time in our industry that I have seen this level of efficiency in programmable product development," said Bill Hata, former senior vice president of Worldwide Operations and Engineering at Altera Corporation (now part of Intel).Unlike leading FPGAs, this technology does not require special silicon process recipes to boost performance and logic element (LE) density."Efinixs joint development activities, which focus on infrastructure, data centers, and advanced silicon processes, further amplify the companys leadership in the programmable industry.A milestone was achieved with record breaking efficiency -- going from product development using SMICs Physical Design Kit (PDK) to system validation of the samples in less than six months.