Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger showed off an early sample of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator at an event in New York used to launch Intel Core Ultra and 5th generation Xeon processors.
The Intel Core Ultra has been designed into approximately 230 AI-PC models to be launched in 2024, the company said. It is the first processor built on the Intel 4 manufacturing process, previously known as 7nm but now re-calibrated to be a nominal 4nm process. It also uses Intel’s Foveros 3D packaging technology.
Codenamed Meteor Lake the Core Ultra family offers up to six performance x86 cores, up to eight x86 cores optimized for efficiency and two low-power efficiency cores. The maximum clock frequency is 5.1GHz and the processor includes the Intel Arc GPU with eight cores and a dedicated NPU for AI processing. The chiplet based component comes with up to 96Gbytes of LPDDR5 memory.
The 5th generation Xeon core, codenamed Emerald Rapids, is an AI-capable server processor. It is intended to address a breadth of applications before a customer needs to introduce dedicated AI acceleration. It supports up to 64 cores per CPU and nearly 3x the maximum last-level cache from the previous generation.
Intel did not mention the manufacturing process technology which is reportedly the Intel 7 process which used to be called 10nm. Intel did state that Sierra Forest, with E-core efficiency and up to 288 cores, will arrive in the 1H24. This should provide a major improvement from being based on the Intel 3 process. Granite Rapids, with P-core performance, will closely follow made in the chiplet style with a mix of Intel 3 and less advanced manufacturing processes.
At the event Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger also showed off the company’s next-generation Gaudi 3 datacenter AI accelerator. This is due to launch in 2024 to compete with AMD’s MI300 and the H100 from Nvidia (see AMD launches MI300, claims AI performance lead over Nvidia). No specifications were given for Gaudi 3. Gelsinger described the component as “out of fab, in the lab, being powered on, looking healthy.”
The Intel Core Ultra has been designed into approximately 230 AI-PC models to be launched in 2024, the company said. It is the first processor built on the Intel 4 manufacturing process, previously known as 7nm but now re-calibrated to be a nominal 4nm process. It also uses Intel’s Foveros 3D packaging technology.
Codenamed Meteor Lake the Core Ultra family offers up to six performance x86 cores, up to eight x86 cores optimized for efficiency and two low-power efficiency cores. The maximum clock frequency is 5.1GHz and the processor includes the Intel Arc GPU with eight cores and a dedicated NPU for AI processing. The chiplet based component comes with up to 96Gbytes of LPDDR5 memory.
The 5th generation Xeon core, codenamed Emerald Rapids, is an AI-capable server processor. It is intended to address a breadth of applications before a customer needs to introduce dedicated AI acceleration. It supports up to 64 cores per CPU and nearly 3x the maximum last-level cache from the previous generation.
Intel did not mention the manufacturing process technology which is reportedly the Intel 7 process which used to be called 10nm. Intel did state that Sierra Forest, with E-core efficiency and up to 288 cores, will arrive in the 1H24. This should provide a major improvement from being based on the Intel 3 process. Granite Rapids, with P-core performance, will closely follow made in the chiplet style with a mix of Intel 3 and less advanced manufacturing processes.
At the event Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger also showed off the company’s next-generation Gaudi 3 datacenter AI accelerator. This is due to launch in 2024 to compete with AMD’s MI300 and the H100 from Nvidia (see AMD launches MI300, claims AI performance lead over Nvidia). No specifications were given for Gaudi 3. Gelsinger described the component as “out of fab, in the lab, being powered on, looking healthy.”
