FPGA
Intel's Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) is broadening its FPGA product range with the introduction of six new programmable platforms aimed at different types of customers and workloads. In addition to a new sub-family of Agilex 5-series offerings, Intel is launching its all-new Agilex 3 series offerings along with new Agilex. The highlight of today's announcement is the Intel Agilex 3 FPGA series of power and cost-optimized FPGAs in compact form factors. The family includes the Agilex 3 B-series FPGAs that boast a higher I/O density in compact form factors (compared to Intel Max 10 FPGAs) and are optimized for board and system management, including server platform management applications. On the other side of the Agilex 3 spectrum is the C-series FPGAs that are engineered to...
MLPerf Inference v1.0: 2000 Suite Results, New Power Measurements
There has been a strong desire for a series of industry standard machine learning benchmarks, akin to the SPEC benchmarks for CPUs, in order to compare relative solutions. Over...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/21/2021Nimbus Data’s New ExaDrive NL: 64 TB of Enterprise Grade QLC in 3.5-inch
Today Nimbus Data, one of the first companies to venture into enterprise flash storage in 2003, is announcing its latest generation ExaDrive product. Following on from the success of...
27 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/26/2020Intel’s Future 7nm FPGAs To Use Foveros 3D Stacking
One of the main battlegrounds of future leading-edge semiconductor products will be in the packaging technology: being able to integrate multiple elements of silicon onto the same package with...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020Apple Now Offering Standalone Afterburner Cards for Mac Pro Upgrades
Aimed at very specific audiences, Apple’s Mac Pro clearly does not come at a price point that seems reasonable for an average person. Nonetheless, the features it has are...
11 by Anton Shilov on 3/23/2020Intel Joins CHIPS Alliance, Contributes Advanced Interface Bus
Intel this week became a member of CHIPS Alliance, an industry consortium that is working to accelerate the development of open source SoCs (and SiPs) for various applications. As...
17 by Anton Shilov on 1/24/2020AIC to Offer Dual Socket 1U with Four 300W FPGAs
Aside from specific events relating to Xilinx or Altera/Intel, we don’t cover much FPGA news. FPGAs by their very nature are very focused pieces of hardware, and it’s usually...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/5/2019Intel Ships Stratix 10 DX FPGAs: Supports PCIe 4.0, UPI, and Optane DCPMM
Last week Intel announced it has started shipments of its Stratix 10 DX FPGA to early adopters. The DC models are designed for next-generation cache-coherent accelerators for custom servers...
4 by Anton Shilov & Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/3/2019Spotted at Computex: The Ultimate GPU Air Cooling Solution
Graphics cards and PCIe cards come with a limited set of cooling options. Some of the low TDP models are passive, before going up to active cooling on higher...
25 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2019Intel’s Enterprise Extravaganza 2019: Launching Cascade Lake, Optane DCPMM, Agilex FPGAs, 100G Ethernet, and Xeon D-1600
Today is the big day in 2019 for Intel’s Enterprise product announcements, combining some products that should be available from today and a few others set to be available...
38 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019Intel Launches "Vision Accelerator Design" Products, Based On Movidius Accelerators & Arria FPGAs
Intel on Wednesday introduced a new series of computer vision accelerators powered by a combination of Movidius chips and Arria FPGAs. Dubbed the Vision Accelerator Design series, the new...
6 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2018Xilinx Acquires DEEPhi Tech ML Startup
Xilinx this week announced that it had taken over DeepPhi Technology, a machine learning startup from China. DEEPhi has been using Xilinx FPGA for its ML projects since its...
2 by Anton Shilov on 7/19/2018Intel To Acquire eASIC: Lower Cost ASICs in FPGA Design Time
Along with the other announcement today, Intel is also announcing that it will acquire a company called eASIC which develops FPGA-like design tools to roll out ‘structured ASICs’. These...
18 by Ian Cutress on 7/12/2018Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
Part of the story behind the Xeon Scalable platform, built upon server-level Skylake processing cores with AVX-512 and a new mesh topology, was that the CPU was designed to...
32 by Ian Cutress on 5/17/2018Xilinx Announces Project Everest: The 7nm FPGA SoC Hybrid
This week Xilinx is making public its latest internal project for the next era of specialized computing. The new product line, called Project Everest in the interim, is based...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/19/2018Intel Launches Stratix 10 TX: Leveraging EMIB with 58G Transceivers
One of the key takeaways from Hot Chips last year was that Intel’s EMIB strategy was going to be fixed primarily in FPGAs to begin with. Intel instigated a...
7 by Ian Cutress on 2/26/2018Dual Xeon Scalable Overclocking: ASUS WS C621E 'Sage' Workstation Motherboard Announced
ASUS has quietly announced a new motherboard: the WS C621E SAGE (or just 'Sage' for short). This workstation class board offers users dual Intel LGA-3647 sockets with CPUs up...
48 by Joe Shields on 10/24/2017Hot Chips: Intel EMIB and 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA Live Blog (8:45am PT, 3:45pm UTC)
Today at Hot Chips we have a lot of interesting talks going on. First up is a talk on Intel's latest 14nm FPGA solution: Stratix 10 implementing HBM using...
51 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2017Intel Announces Cyclone 10 FPGAs for IoT Devices
Intel this week has announced its new portfolio of FPGAs designed for small form-factor and/or low-power Internet-of-Things devices, specifically in the fields of automotive, industrial, audio/visual and vision applications...
26 by Anton Shilov on 2/18/2017Xilinx Launches Cost-Optimized Portfolio: New Spartan, Artix and Zynq Solutions
Some of the key elements of the embedded market are cost, power and efficiency. A number of applications for embedded vision and IoT, when applying complexity, rely on the...
1 by Ian Cutress on 9/27/2016