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  • Intel Rolls Out The Stratix 10 FPGA With HBM2 Memory

    Phoronix: Intel Rolls Out The Stratix 10 FPGA With HBM2 Memory

    Intel has announced the first FPGA product that makes use of High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2) for extreme HPC performance...

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    Xilinx announced their Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA's with HBM2 memory 1,5 years ago, but I can't recall seeing any mention of them on this site so far. When you look at Intel's new products from their previously-known-as-Altera division consists of (an FPGA, ARM cores and HBM memory) it's eerily similar to the Xilinx's Virtex UltraScale+ chips announced in the spring of last year.

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    • #3
      Now all we need is for someone to design an all in one ARM based PC with this chip. Imagine a configurable AI processor subsection that updates as technology improves.

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      • #4
        Oh, so now Intel is selling products powered by ARM processors?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by wizard69 View Post
          Now all we need is for someone to design an all in one ARM based PC with this chip. Imagine a configurable AI processor subsection that updates as technology improves.
          1. it still going to run like shit if compared to an ASIC (i.e. non-reconfigurable processors) on the same load
          2. it's HORRIBLY expensive


          This thing is designed for workloads where designing and manufacturing dedicated ASIC hardware would be unpractical, (i.e. the algorithm it must accelerate changes over time due to development, or it does niche functions where less than a few thousand of units are required).

          It's basically a "poor man's dedicated accelerator", much better than running your code on a CPU (or on GPU) while far weaker than a dedicated ASIC accelerator designed for the same job.
          Being re-configurable you can mass-produce these things enough to sell them as a product to many different customers that could not justify the production runs (and associated costs) of dedicated ASICs.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by uid313 View Post
            Oh, so now Intel is selling products powered by ARM processors?
            They used to make ARM processors back in the nineties (look up StrongARM).

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            • #7
              Originally posted by uid313 View Post
              Oh, so now Intel is selling products powered by ARM processors?
              And Microsoft officially supports Linux with "Bash on Ubuntu for Windows".
              It's nice to see that users/devs still have some influence and impact in the market strategies, because the users/devs forced both those decisions.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                Oh, so now Intel is selling products powered by ARM processors?
                Saying that these things are "powered by" ARM processors is like saying that iPhones are "powered by" Intel because iPhones include Intel modems... it shows that you really don't know what the product is or what it does.

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                • #9
                  For the clueless, 90% of the load on these things is answering "Hey Cortana, what time is it?".

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by wizard69 View Post
                    Now all we need is for someone to design an all in one ARM based PC with this chip. Imagine a configurable AI processor subsection that updates as technology improves.
                    See comment by L_A_G above... Try a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ on for size, I've not used the UltraScale jobbies but the plain Zynq with Linux is quite flexible and eats RasPi for breakfast
                    Based on the Xilinx UltraScale MPSoC architecture, the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs enable extensive system level differentiation, integration, and flexibility through hardware, software, and I/O programmability.

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