Intel Acquires Altera: How Will the World of FPGAs be Affected?

Intel's purchase of Altera is very likely to be the biggest single event in FPGA history and, therefore, have a profound impact on the FPGA world. This panel intends to explore the business and research opportunities that are potentially enabled and potentially squashed by the acquisition. Questions that will be explored by the panel include: What will be the impact on FPGA applications? Clearly, there is the potential of much tighter integration of CPU and FPGA, but what applications and usage models does that really enable? What will be the impact on FPGA business? What will be the impact on the FPGA research community?