Intel has introduced the launch of its newest knowledge heart chips within the Xeon 6 household, now that includes efficiency cores (P-cores) relatively than effectivity cores (E-cores) — claiming an “as much as” doubling in efficiency for machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads plus a particular “edge” system-on-chip (SoC) variant.
“We’re intensely targeted on bringing cutting-edge management merchandise to market that clear up our clients’ best challenges and assist drive the expansion of their enterprise,” claims Intel’s Michelle Johnston Holthaus, chief government officer of Intel Merchandise and present co-CEO of Intel itself following the ousting of Pat Gelsinger. “The Xeon 6 household delivers the trade’s finest CPU for AI and groundbreaking options for networking, whereas concurrently driving effectivity and bringing down the overall price of possession.”
Intel has its eyes on AI with the brand new Xeon 6500P (left) and Xeon 6700P households, providing a claimed doubling in efficiency for chosen workloads. (📷: Intel)
In keeping with Intel’s inside testing, the Intel Xeon 6700P and Xeon 6500P processor households — to not be confused with the Xeon 6700E and 6500E, launched final yr and utilizing lower-performance “effectivity cores” instead of the brand new fashions’ “efficiency cores” — provide “as much as” twice the efficiency for synthetic intelligence workloads in comparison with their previous-generation equivalents — alongside “a mean” of 1.4× efficiency for “a variety of enterprise workloads.” The corporate is especially curious about stemming a shift to AMD and Arm host processors for large-scale AI accelerator installations, claiming that the brand new Xeon cores ship as much as 1.5× extra inference efficiency on two-thirds the cores of AMD’s fifth-generation EPYC processors.
Whereas conventional a CPU-only household concentrating on the information heart, Intel’s launch comes with the announcement of the Intel Xeon 6 “for community and edge.” An all-in-one system-on-chip design, the brand new edge chip comes with built-in accelerators for AI workloads, community safety, media, and virtualized radio entry networks (vRANs) — suggesting Intel sees a future through which mobile base stations depend on machine studying fashions to course of ever-increasing quantities of knowledge in a finite radio spectrum.
The launch comes with a brand new Xeon 6 SoC variant, too, concentrating on edge workloads relatively than knowledge heart installations. (📷: Intel)
The launch comes as Intel struggles to compete in a market that has moved compute from the CPU onto GPU and devoted accelerators and through which it has run into numerous velocity bumps in transitioning its processors to next-generation single-digit-nanometer course of nodes. Earlier this month rumors unfold that Broadcom and TSMC have been having “preliminary and largely casual” investigations into doubtlessly buying components of Intel — a transfer that might see the corporate break up in half.
Extra data on the brand new chips is offered on Intel’s web site; pricing begins at $815 for the Xeon 6511P with 16 cores and rises to $8,960 for the Xeon 6781P with 80 cores, whereas Intel says that there are “greater than 500 designs out there now or in progress” from companions together with Dell, Samsung, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, and Supermicro.
