In the early morning of November 8, Beijing time, according to CNBC website, sources said that chip company Xilinx had hired Barclays Bank to help it acquire Mellanox, continuing the trend of integration in the semiconductor industry. Reported that xilinsi had contact with Mai Luo Si, launched a takeover offer for it.

As early as 2014, Microsoft first announced that it was exploring the possibility of using FPGAs in data centers to speed up some of Bing's tasks. Later in 2016, Microsoft announced that they had extended the use of FPGA in Azure and Office 365. Each group uses FPGA according to their needs. For example, Azure uses FPGA for faster network connectivity, while Office 365 uses it for machine intelligence activities.

From the second half of last year to this year, AI chips blossomed everywhere. Many AI start-ups in China have introduced their own AI chips, but Victor Peng, president and CEO of Cellings, the world's largest FPGA manufacturer, poured cold water on them, saying that start-ups should not start making AI chips from scratch.

Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX), the global leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, announced today that it had completed the acquisition of Shenzhen Science and Technology (Inc.). Shen Jian Technology is a start-up in Beijing, with the industry's leading machine learning ability, focusing on neural network pruning, deep compression technology and system level optimization.