Xilinx

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fabless semiconductor company semiconductor company technology company

Xilinx is a leading semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices, particularly FPGAs and related development tools.

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Label	Occurrences
Xilinx canonical	2
Xilinx FPGA	1
Xilinx Spartan family	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2130617 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Xilinx
Context triple: [CPLD, majorVendor, Xilinx]

A. Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
B. Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor is an American technology company that designs and manufactures low-power, programmable logic devices used in a wide range of electronics and embedded systems.
C. Stratix
Stratix is a high-performance family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed by Altera (now part of Intel) for demanding digital logic and signal processing applications.
D. Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company known for its software and hardware tools used to design and verify integrated circuits and electronic systems.
E. Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies is a leading German semiconductor manufacturer known for its automotive, power, and security electronics solutions.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Xilinx
Target entity description: Xilinx is a leading semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices, particularly FPGAs and related development tools.

A. Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
B. Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor is an American technology company that designs and manufactures low-power, programmable logic devices used in a wide range of electronics and embedded systems.
C. Stratix
Stratix is a high-performance family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed by Altera (now part of Intel) for demanding digital logic and signal processing applications.
D. Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company known for its software and hardware tools used to design and verify integrated circuits and electronic systems.
E. Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies is a leading German semiconductor manufacturer known for its automotive, power, and security electronics solutions.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fabless semiconductor company ⓘ semiconductor company ⓘ technology company ⓘ
acquiredBy	Advanced Micro Devices ⓘ surface form: AMD
acquisitionDate	2022 ⓘ
acquisitionValue	approximately 49 billion US dollars ⓘ
areaServed	worldwide ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
focusesOn	5G and communications infrastructure ⓘ aerospace and defense applications ⓘ automotive electronics ⓘ data center acceleration ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ hardware acceleration ⓘ programmable logic solutions ⓘ
foundedBy	Bernard Vonderschmitt ⓘ James V Barnett II ⓘ Ross Freeman ⓘ
foundedIn	Silicon Valley ⓘ
headquartersLocation	San Jose ⓘ surface form: San Jose, California
inception	1984 ⓘ
industry	programmable logic devices ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
mainCompetitor	Altera ⓘ surface form: Intel (Altera) Lattice Semiconductor ⓘ Microchip Technology ⓘ surface form: Microchip Technology (Microsemi)
notableAchievement	pioneer in field-programmable gate array technology ⓘ
notableWork	invention of the first commercially successful FPGA ⓘ
parentOrganization	Advanced Micro Devices ⓘ
product	Artix FPGA family ⓘ ISE Design Suite ⓘ Kintex FPGA family ⓘ Spartan FPGA family ⓘ SoC FPGA ⓘ surface form: Versal ACAP family Virtex FPGA family ⓘ Vitis unified software platform ⓘ Vivado Design Suite ⓘ SoC FPGA ⓘ surface form: Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC SoC FPGA ⓘ surface form: Zynq-7000 SoC adaptive compute acceleration platforms ⓘ complex programmable logic devices ⓘ development tools for programmable logic ⓘ field-programmable gate arrays ⓘ system-on-chip devices ⓘ
stockExchange	NASDAQ ⓘ
tickerSymbol	XLNX ⓘ
website	https://www.xilinx.com ⓘ

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CPLDs → majorVendor → Xilinx ⓘ

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NI roboRIO → hasOnboardFPGA → Xilinx ⓘ

this entity surface form: Xilinx FPGA

FPGA → majorVendor → Xilinx ⓘ

Cyclone → competesWith → Xilinx ⓘ

this entity surface form: Xilinx Spartan family

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