Not Surprising
Since Intel did buy Altera, it would very much make sense for AMD to also have a foot in the FPGA game, if there was any chance at all that some important synergies between FPGAs and CPUs (or even GPUs, for that matter) crop up.
And I remember that after buying Altera, Intel then went and bought another FPGA maker... Omnitek.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
