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)
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79 Comments on Raja Koduri Teases "Petaflops in Your Palm" Intel Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio GPU

#76
Valantar
gasolinasince november or december 2017 dude join intel and from then there is no graphic cards out for 4 years all they do just marking slides . Glad amd kick that clown out so they can make big navi.
the problem with intel is they're dying and there is no escape but to sell themself to samsung or nvidia or may be some china owners in order to be back in the again. A high tech company with zero innovation since 2015 . It's a sinking ship ........at this rate intel will kill itself within 7 years. And soon amd will follow intel footprint
Well, they have launched a much better GPU architecture since then, so it's not like they've done nothing. Also, do you have even the slightest idea how long it takes to design a modern GPU or other advanced chip from the ground up? Four years would be a pretty short design cycle for something needing changes that big. 1st gen Ryzen was in the works for more than 5, after all.
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windwhirl
ValantarWell, they have launched a much better GPU architecture since then, so it's not like they've done nothing. Also, do you have even the slightest idea how long it takes to design a modern GPU or other advanced chip from the ground up? Four years would be a pretty short design cycle for something needing changes that big. 1st gen Ryzen was in the works for more than 5, after all.
It's what I've been thinking. A lot of people complaining about Raja's work or lack-there-of (and I'll admit that sometimes I've joined in the "fun"), but how long does it take to make a GPU arch? RDNA launched just two years later after Raja left. Of those two years, at least the last six months were probably spent testing RDNA prototypes close to final design and then ramping up production for launch. So, could they actually have made RDNA in the year and half after Raja left?

Plus, Raja does have a history of working at various companies at different times, so maybe all this thing of "Raja Koduri bad" is just a misconception?
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ixi
MetroidIntel has to get its act together and deliver now, trust me it will sell all their gpus in few days, if crypto crashes then Intel will not sell even 1 gpu hehe, market will be abundant with nvidia 3070 for 300 usd, right now 3070 are being sold for 1400 usd.
Would be cool if the market crashed, but sadly it wont happen in the closest months...
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