Intel begins shipping the first Agilex FPGAs based on 10nm lithography

The first Intel Agilex FPGAs based on 10nm lithography begin to be distributed to customers of the early access program.

The first Intel processors under 10nm lithography seem to be reaching the market. The 10nm lithography process has taken much longer than expected to be used to create processors. A few weeks ago Intel presented the first laptop processors under this lithography. Now he has used it for an Intel Agilex processor, a very specific processor for the industrial sector.

Intel has started shipping its first Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to customers within your early access program. This news is very important, because it shows that the 10nm lithographic process is fully functional. What we do not know is when it will arrive for the general market, but it should not take long.

The first Intel Agilex begins to be distributed

Among the companies that are within this early access program are Microsoft, Colorado Engineering Inc, Mantaro Networks and Silicom. FPGAs can be used for a wide range of applications, such as networks, accelerated data analysis or artificial intelligence.

“The Agilex FPGA product family leverages the breadth of Intel's technology and innovation leadership, including architecture, packaging, process technology, development tools, and a fast track to reducing power consumption with eASIC technology.

These unmatched assets enable new levels of heterogeneous computing, system integration and processor connectivity, and will be the first FPGA to a 10nm manufacturing process that will provide low-latency and cache-consistent connectivity to Intel Xeon processors with the upcoming Compute interconnect. Express Link (CXL), ”said Dan McNamara, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Custom Logic and Networking Group.

“Microsoft has been working closely with Intel in the development of their Agilex FPGAs and we are planning to use them in a number of future projects. The company's FPGAs have provided us with great value to accelerate real-time Artificial Intelligence, networks and other applications / infrastructure in Azure Cloud Services, Bing and other data center services, ”said Doug Burger, Azure Technician Hardware Systems at Microsoft.