Xilinx, the world’s favorite FPGA merchant, is to become known as the Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group (AECG) within the AMD wheelhouse, following completion of the deal initially valued at $35 billion and now thought to be in excess of $50 billion. It is apt that AMD’s acquisition should be signed and sealed just days after Arm’s $40 billion takeover by Nvidia unraveled in unsightly fashion, a deal which Arm would have used to counter AMD’s GPU resurgence. Yet what truly brings AMD and Xilinx together is a mutual hunger for the lunch of Intel and its own expansion into GPUs. An elephant in the room, however, is the power-guzzling reputation of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). Xilinx has looked…