He celebrates the International Conference on Supercomputing and Intel presented its bets for the server and data center market. If a few hours ago we told you about the successor of Ponte Vecchio under the name of Rialto Bridge. Now we have to go further and talk about Hawk’s Shores. The company’s first XPU that will combine both its Xeon cores and Intel Xe GPUs in the same processor.
There’s no doubt that one of the reasons Intel has been interested in improving its ability to design graphics hardware is to drive the competition out of the market. This is particularly the case in the high performance computing market, where the use of graphics cards is essential to solve certain problems. If we add to this that there is no reliance on Windows in this market, then we have a situation where Intel is under attack on two fronts. On the one hand, the rise of processors based on the ARM ISA. On the other hand, an AMD much more reinforced in terms of GPUs, which enabled it to obtain several very powerful contracts.
What is Falcon Shores and what does the term XPU mean?
Well, that would be both the successor to the future Xeon and the Rialto Bridge, and that’s that at some point Intel won’t be offering its server processors and graphics in separate solutions, but in one . that they have code name Falcon Shores
As it’s been going on for years on PC, that shouldn’t surprise us. Moreover, it is the product of the transition to processors divided into several chips, which are also commonly called chiplets, which will allow these mixed systems. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that Pat Gelsinger’s company made the announcement. Also, given AMD’s tendency to offer complete CPU and GPU solutions in one complete package, it’s only natural that Intel would do the same.
Intel currently plans to launch Falcon Shores for data centers and supercomputers in 2024. What Will Lead to Intel Xeon Processor Product Lines will be merged into a single product with the successor of the Rialto Bridge. The safest in a hardware that is combined with HBM3 memory at the same time. Since it is the only type of RAM with the latency and bandwidth to serve as the ideal memory for both a processor and a graphics card. Which will mean significant changes in the nature of servers, as well as their motherboards, since if so, we will have three key computer components in one piece.
