Hopefully the hard NOC is good this time around. The limitations of the previous series made it mostly useless.
Likely shipping w/o the proper documentation to enable nextpnr and similar tools, as it's tradition in altera.
I will always choose the vendors that do things properly, when they're even an option.
Fantastic chip, I love everything about this announcement.
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> Engineering sample silicon for Agilex 27 FPGAs is expected in the second half of 2027.
That's not even a paper launch at this stage.