By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) AMD on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to purchase long-time Apple supplier Xilinx, mainly known for making a type of reconfigurable chip, for $35 billion in stock.Credit: XilinxXilinx is a company known for producing field-programmable gate arrays, or FGPAs. They’re a type of chip that can be reconfigured after production and installation in a device, and are used for tasks such as speeding up machine learning tasks or powering cellular base stations….

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