Wednesday, March 24th 2021
Raja Koduri Teases "Petaflops in Your Palm" Intel Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio GPU
Raja Koduri of Intel has today posted an interesting video on his Twitter account. Showing one of the greatest engineering marvels Intel has ever created, Mr. Koduri has teased what is to come when the company launches the Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio graphics card designed for high-performance computing workloads. Showcased today was the "petaflops in your palm" chip, designed to run AI workloads with a petaflop of computing power. Having over 100 billion transistors, the chip uses as much as 47 tiles combined in the most advanced packaging technology ever created by Intel. They call them "magical tiles", and they bring logic, memory, and I/O controllers, all built using different semiconductor nodes.
Mr. Koduri also pointed out that the chip was born after only two years after the concept, which is an awesome achievement, given that the research of the new silicon takes years. The chip will be the heart of many systems that require massive computational power, especially the ones like AI. Claiming to have the capability to perform quadrillion floating-point operations per second (one petaflop), the chip will be a true monster. So far we don't know other details like the floating-point precision it runs at with one petaflop or the total power consumption of those 47 tiles, so we have to wait for more details.
More pictures follow.
Source:
Raja Koduri (Twitter)
Mr. Koduri also pointed out that the chip was born after only two years after the concept, which is an awesome achievement, given that the research of the new silicon takes years. The chip will be the heart of many systems that require massive computational power, especially the ones like AI. Claiming to have the capability to perform quadrillion floating-point operations per second (one petaflop), the chip will be a true monster. So far we don't know other details like the floating-point precision it runs at with one petaflop or the total power consumption of those 47 tiles, so we have to wait for more details.
79 Comments on Raja Koduri Teases "Petaflops in Your Palm" Intel Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio GPU
Like, BRUH, look at these magic gluing of words - "Alchemy of Technologies" "47 Magical Tiles" (with Exact Capitalization). Raja himself would probably threw up a little when he saw this and his photos presented together.
I also thought alchemy was pure fiction, but Intel seems to have taken advantage of that too, to make this amazing chip.It wows the investors, which is all that matters...
Very clear insight that this Petaflops card need at least water cooling with 560mm radiator.I think Intel should make Elder Scroll VI, with so much of material they can make great story telling :D
"Petaflops", right...
also, magical, alchemy....cant believe they left out witchcraft, oh well maybe for Ponte V2
It looks like Intel is branching out into construction work with magic in their tiles, while AMD revolutionises the textile industry by weaving infinity into its fabrics. Does nobody make CPUs anymore?
Moreover, intel seems to be wasting their best opportunity -in fact the opportunity of a lifetime- to sell as many discrete GPUs as they could make. In this market, with this shortage, they'd be building a user base even if they released a part with RX580 top performance.
Whatever they'd make, GPU-wise, they would have sold out.
Too bad they're still only making just vapor and tweets.
Poor Intel though, I'd rather hand him over to NV... :D