Xilinx has announced that its Versal ACAP platform for intensive compute tasks will be used by Samsung in 5G base stations. This comes hard on the heels of the announcement of Versal Premium, a high end member of the family targeted directly at telecoms networks. Both pieces of news are welcome for Xilinx supporters. The company has been open about several challenges recently: It has been hit by the US/China trade war, with the prospect of being restricted in supplying Huawei and other key customers; and this uncertainty has been worsened by the impact of Covid-19 on the semiconductor supply chain and the delays to some customers’ deployment plans. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) – the product category which Xilinx…