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With ISC High Performance 2022 taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany, Intel is using the first in-person version of the event in 3 years to offer an update to the state of their high performance/supercomputer silicon plans. The big news out of the show this year is that Intel is naming the successor to the Ponte Vecchio accelerator, which the company is now disclosing as Rialto Bridge. Previously appearing on Intel’s roadmaps as “Ponte Vecchio Next”, Intel’s GPU teams have been pipelining the development of Ponte’s successor even as the first large installation of Ponte itself (the Aurora Supercomputer) is still being stood up. As part of the company’s 3 year (ish) roadmap that leads to CPUs and accelerators converging with the Falcon Shores...
The Intel Xe-LP GPU Architecture Deep Dive: Building Up The Next Generation
As part of today’s Intel Architecture Day, Intel is devoting a good bit of its time to talking about the company’s GPU architecture plans. Though not a shy spot...
34 by Ryan Smith on 8/13/2020
Intel Schedules Tiger Lake Architecture Presentation For August 13th, Launch on September 2nd
Over the next month or so Intel is scheduled to launch its next-generation Tiger Lake family of processors. Detailed in bits and pieces over the past several months, Tiger...
80 by Ryan Smith on 8/5/2020
Hot Chips 32 (2020) Schedule Announced: Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, Raja Koduri Keynote
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again – the best industry conference I go to every year is Hot Chips. The event has grown over...
65 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/8/2020
Intel’s Raja Koduri Teases Even Larger Xe GPU Silicon
Absent from the discrete GPU space for over 20 years, this year Intel is set to see the first fruits from their labors to re-enter that market. The company...
42 by Ryan Smith on 6/25/2020
Intel: Tiger Lake Client CPUs Coming Mid-Year
Along with detailing the nuts and the bolts of their Q1 2020 earnings, as part of Intel’s financial presentation, the company also offered a quick update on their upcoming...
140 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2020
Seeing Is Believing: Intel Teases DG1 Discrete Xe GPU With Laptop & Desktop Dev Cards At CES 2020
While CES 2020 technically doesn’t wrap up for another couple of days, I’ve already been asked a good dozen or so times what the neatest or most surprising product...
84 by Ryan Smith on 1/9/2020
Intel at CES 2020: 45W 10th Gen Mobile CPUs Soon, Tiger Lake with Xe Graphics Later
As we move into 2020, there is a lot of talk about what Intel’s 2020 plans will be. Discussions about the expansion of Intel’s 10nm process node products, such...
57 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/6/2020
Analyzing Intel’s Discrete Xe-HPC Graphics Disclosure: Ponte Vecchio, Rambo Cache, and Gelato
It has been a couple of weeks since Intel formally provided some high-level detail on its new discrete graphics strategy. The reason for the announcements and disclosures centered around...
49 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/24/2019
AnandTech Exclusive: An Interview with Intel’s Raja Koduri about Xe
This week Raja gave the keynote at Intel’s HPC DevCon event, a precursor to Supercomputing, and I did my usual thing of asking for the interview, fully expecting the...
73 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/20/2019
Intel’s 2021 Exascale Vision in Aurora: Two Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Six Ponte Vecchio GPUs
For the last few of years, when discussing high performance computing, it has been tough to avoid hearing the word ‘exascale’. Even last month, on 10/18, HPC twitter was...
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019
Intel’s Xe for HPC: Ponte Vecchio with Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros on 7nm, Coming 2021
Today is Intel’s pre-SC19 HPC Devcon event, and with Raja Koduri on stage, the company has given a small glimpse into its high-performance compute accelerator strategy for 2021. Intel...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019
Intel Details Manufacturing through 2023: 7nm, 7+, 7++, with Next Gen Packaging
At Intel's Investor Day today, CEO Bob Swan and Murthy Renduchintala spoke to the ability of the company with respect to its manufacturing capabilities. Intel has historically been strong...
237 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 5/8/2019
Intel to Support Hardware Ray Tracing Acceleration on Data Center Xe GPUs
In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, tucked inside of a larger blog post about announcements relating to this week’s FMX graphics conference, Intel has made its first official comments about hardware...
31 by Ryan Smith on 5/1/2019
Intel's Interconnected Future: Combining Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros
While Intel works on getting its main manufacturing process technology on track, it is spending just as much time and effort in researching and developing the rest of the...
117 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/17/2019
Intel's Architecture Day 2018: The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86
It has been hard to miss the fact that Intel has been vacuuming up a lot of industry talent, which brings with them a lot of experience. Renduchintala, Koduri...
149 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/12/2018
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