Intel Xe-HPC will be a GPU of up to 4 DIE with a power of 36 TFLOPs (and as big as an AMD EPYC)

The race to deliver high-quality products for artificial intelligence is only growing. This is a market that moves a lot of money and in which NVIDIA has a great advantage over AMD and Intel. The latter, Intel, is working at full speed to launch products that are competitive. Raja Koduri on his way through the Folsom laboratory in California, has shown us the Intel Xe-HPC of 4-Tile.

Raja Koduri was hired by Intel to develop graphics solutions that were up to par with the competition. This is not an easy task, as the company's graphics solutions have always been very weak. But it is a great challenge for the one who was a designer of AMD graphics cards.

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Intel shows a DG1 Xe-HPC with a giant size

It appears that the company is working on a usable architecture across three segments and eight product lines. The most important would be Xe-HPC for Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Exascale computing. While the simplest range, the Xe-LP, are graphics integrated in processors, which can already be seen in the Tiger Lake-U.

A few months ago Intel already showed a fairly large chip, about 3500mm2, which has also been seen this time. But what stands out is the Xe HP 4-Tile, a large solution that is quite reminiscent of the AMD EPYC. Apparently of these Xe HP there are three versions:

• 1-Tile Xe HP (12.5): 512 UE - 4.096 Cores @ 1.5GHz - 12.2 TFLOPs - 150W
• 2-Tile Xe HP (12.5): 1024 UE - 8.192 Cores @ 1.5GHz - 20.48 TFLOPs - 300W
• 4-Tile Xe HP (12.5): 2048 EU - 16.384 Cores @ 1.1GHz - 36 TFLOPs - 400 / 500W

We see that they are monstrous graphics and have one more peculiarity: they will be the first MCM GPUs in history. These modular graphics could have 4-Tile or what is the same, four silicon. They will be manufactured in the 10nm lithography and have quite high frequencies, to integrate so many DIEs.

One of the images shows a label that indicates ATS-4T, referring to this silicon. Apparently 'ATS' refers to the Arctic Sound GPU architecture, while '4T' refers to the 4-Tile or DIEs of the MCM design.

Source: Twitter Raja Koduri