IBM and Xilinx recently announced a licenseagreement to develop programmable logic cores foruse within the next generation IBM “Cu-08” ASICproduct — this is a crucial link in the on-going questforsystem-level integration. This collaboration tooffer designers high-performance ASIC technology,with state-of-the-art programmable logic, opens avast potential for new applications and the ultimatein both integration and flexibility. This developmentexpands the growing relationship between thesetwoleading technology companies. Both are ranked #1 intheir product markets by Dataquest, where IBM hascaptured the #1 ASIC supplier ranking for 3successive years, and Xilinx has similarly held thetop FPGA supplier position.

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