Xilinx

Article summary

Xilinx, Inc. ( ) was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices. The company is renowned for inventing the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array (FPGA). It also pioneered the first fabless manufacturing model. Xilinx was co-founded by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II in 1984. The company went public on the Nasdaq in 1990. In October 2020, AMD announced its acquisition of Xilinx, which was completed on February 14, 2022, through an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $60 billion. Xilinx remained a wholly owned subsidiary of AMD until the brand was phased out in June 2023, with Xilinx's product lines now branded under AMD.

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1. date of foundation: 1984 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of foundation: 1984 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of foundation: 1984 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. date of foundation: 2016 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1984". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the date of foundation is "1984". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the date of foundation is "1984". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the date of foundation is "2016". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
7. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373915605