Stefan Mileschin

Part of data centre cunning plan

Chipzilla has been lifting the lid on its several AI devices for the data centre market including the third generation of its Xeon Scalable CPU, a new Stratix FPGA with a dedicated AI engine, new Optane persistent memory and NAND SSDs.

According to EETimes, Intel has also been talking about its AI strategy for the data centre for the first time since acquiring data center AI accelerator company Habana Labs.

Cooper Lake was the first tranche of parts in the third generation of its flagship Xeon Scalable CPU line for the data centre. With more than 35 million Xeon Scalable processors deployed, this series is the clear market leader, and the only mainstream CPU offering for the data centre that includes deep learning acceleration. .

Cooper Lake supports bfloat16 (BF16), a number format invented by Google that is becoming the standard for AI training as it offers an optimal balance of compute efficiency and prediction accuracy. This update to DL Boost represents the industry’s first x86 support for BF16 and vector neural network instructions (VNNI).

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