Intel Xeon processors equip FPGA Altera

Intel is launching a dual-chip development platform consisting of a Xeon E5-2600 v4 processor (Broadwell) and FPGA Altera Arria 10 , said vice-president of Intel Diane Bryant at an IDF 2016 conference in China . It is assumed that using such a hybrid will be able to get a 70% increase in performance with the same power consumption and frequency. The fruits of the cooperation of Intel and Altera, which has been going on far from the first year, we have already seen in the face of the prototype of the 5G platform - FPGA and Intel Core intersected there. And now - a new duet. Future plans include full integration of both components on a single chip. The first consumers of the hybrid will be the largest cloud services and data centers. According to Intel's forecasts, by 2020, up to 30% of servers in data centers will have processors with FPGA.

It is worth mentioning here that last year a joint project of Intel and eASIC was launched to create a Xeon + ASIC platform for customizing processors for specific pre-specified loads. Truly, more Xeon'ov, good and different!

Under the cut - a little information about the FPGA Altera Arria 10.

Arria 10 FPGA Device
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The new FPGAs of the Arria 10 family FPGA are made according to the technological standards of 20 nm. Arria 10 family devices are 40% less power consuming than the previous generation FPGA FPGAs and are the only programmable logic in the industry with hardware-implemented floating-point digital signal processing units with a capacity of 1500 GFLOPS (billion floating-point operations).

• Throughput of integrated transceivers up to 28.3 Gb / s
• High-performance 2666 Mbps external memory interface
• Floating-point DSP computing hardware that meets the requirements of the IEEE 754 specification
• Up to 96 transceiver channels provide a serial data transmission path with a throughput of up to 3.6 Tbit / s

Software use of FPGA features will be provided through the Altera OpenCL SDK