Tag: Stratix

• BittWare’s 520NX Accelerator Card harnesses AI-optimized power of the Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA BittWare has just announced the 520NX AI Accelerator PCIe card based on the AI-optimized Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA, which incorporates specialized AI Tensor blocks with a theoretical peak computational speed of 143 INT8 TOPS and 8 Gbytes of in-package, stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). In addition to the Intel Stratix 10 NX FPGA’s internal resources, the 520NX AI Accelerator card’s...
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• Gold Release of Intel® oneAPI Toolkits arrive in December: One Programming Model for a Heterogeneous World of CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs This week at the Supercomputing 2020 (SC20) conference, Intel announced that the gold release of the Intel® oneAPI toolkits will become available next month. The oneAPI industry initiative is creating a unified and simplified cross-architecture programming model that delivers uncompromised performance without proprietary lock-in, while allowing you to integrate legacy code. Intel oneAPI Toolkits allow you to create code for...
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• More details on the Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA, the first AI-optimized Intel® FPGA, now available in a new White Paper The increasing complexity of AI models and the explosive growth of AI model size are both rapidly outpacing innovations in compute resources and memory capacity available on a single device. AI model complexity now doubles every 3.5 months or about 10X per year, driving rapidly increasing demand in AI computing capability. Memory requirements for AI models are also rising due...
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• WaveNet Neural Network runs on Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA, synthesizes 256 16 kHz audio streams in real time State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems generally employ two neural network models that run sequentially to generate audio. The first model generates acoustic features such as spectrograms from input text. The second model, a vocoder, takes intermediate features from the first model and produces speech. Tacotron 2 is often used as the first model. A new White Paper from Myrtle.ai titled...
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• The Next Platform discusses the latest Intel Networking Innovations including new Intel® SmartNICs based on Intel® FPGAs Last month, Intel introduced several FPGA-based networking innovations, including the Intel® FPGA SmartNIC C5000X platform architecture – designed to meet the needs of Cloud Service Providers. Also announced: the Inventec FPGA SmartNIC C5020X, based on the Intel FPGA SmartNIC C5000X platform, and the Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010, a hardware-programmable 4x100G FPGA SmartNIC that combines an Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA...
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• Intel and University of Massachusetts Lowell pilot FPGA learning for students in the Intel® DevCloud. You can now use these resources too, for free The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everyone’s lives in ways we could never have imagined. For example, the most basic methods of teaching and learning based on group settings are no longer easy or even possible in many locations. The challenge is to deliver high-quality instruction while dealing with the reality of group-learning restrictions. Like all educational institutions, universities are currently...
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• SmartNICs based on Intel® FPGAs Boost Converged Broadband Network Performance To meet consumer demands, telco providers that offer both wireless and wireline access to customers rely on dual, complex fixed and mobile infrastructures that must constantly be upgraded and maintained at great cost. Consequently, telco Internet providers continuously explore new ways to reduce costs and create new revenue streams. Many operators, for example, are eyeing 5G fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) to...
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• Intel and partners announce high-performance SmartNICs that deliver programmable network acceleration for cloud data centers and communications infrastructure Intel has been a leader in Ethernet networking since the very beginnings of the IEEE 802 standard. The first Ethernet specification, Version 1.0, was published on September 30, 1980 – forty years ago. It was submitted as a candidate for the active IEEE project 802 local area network standardization effort. The original Ethernet specification document was called the “Blue Book”...
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• New article discusses why FPGAs are a good choice for deep-learning applications and research Many AI workloads such as image recognition rely heavily on parallelism to achieve good performance. For that reason, early AI researchers swiftly adopted GPUs, which provide significant amount of computational parallelism. GPUs were originally designed to render video and graphics, so they excel at parallel processing and can perform a very large number of arithmetic operations in parallel. GPUs deliver...
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• S2C announces FPGA Prototyping System with 300M ASIC gate capacity based on four Intel® Stratix® 10 GX 10M FPGAs When it comes to validating next-generation SoC designs in cutting-edge applications such as 5G, AI, and Networking using an FPGA prototyping system… bigger is better. S2C’s new Quad 10M Prodigy Logic System embodies that concept by delivering a platform comprised of four Intel® Stratix® 10 GX 10M FPGAs. Each FPGA delivers 10.2 million logic elements (LEs), for a combined capacity...
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