INTEL’s New Technology Brings 10 Times Higher Memory Bandwidth

Intel has just announced that its new innovation on how memory works by integrating the FPGA and HBM2. The Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA is now the worlds first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM HBM2. The Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA family is set to bring a maximum memory bandwidth of 512 gigabytes per second with the integrated HBM2. Intel is trying to revolutionize the way memory works by specially taking away the problems that are holding technologies back. Earlier in 2017 Intel introduced and now shipping it Optane memories which are becoming a huge deal in shaping how ram memories will work in future.

The Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA is the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2). By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs offer up to 10 times memory bandwidth compared to standalone DDR memory solutions. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

The Intel  Stratix 10 MX FPGA is the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2). (Credit: Intel Corporation)

Intel just announced the availability of the new Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA memory technology, first field programmable gate array (FPGA) that is integrated with High Bandwidth Memory DRAM type HBM2. By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix is now introducing 10 MX FPGAs can brings up to 10 times the memory bandwidth when compared with standalone DDR memory solutions we have now. These unique bandwidth capabilities make Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs the essential multi-function accelerators for high-performance computing (HPC), data centers, network functions virtualization (NFV), and broadcast applications that need hardware accelerators for faster mass data movements and stream data pipeline frameworks. HBM2-based FPGAs can compress and accelerate larger data movements compared with stand-alone FPGAs.

“To efficiently accelerate these workloads, memory bandwidth needs to keep pace with the explosion in data” said Reynette Au, vice president of marketing, Intel Programmable Solutions Group.

“We designed the Intel Stratix 10 MX family to provide a new class of FPGA-based multi-function data accelerators for HPC and HPDA markets.”said Reynette Au, vice president of marketing, Intel Programmable Solutions Group.

The Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA series are set to provide a maximum memory bandwidth of 512 gigabytes per second with the integrated HBM2. Intel is starting to ship several Intel Stratix 10 FPGA variants, including the Intel Stratix 10 GX FPGAs (with 28G transceivers) and the Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGAs (with embedded quad-core ARM processor). The Intel Stratix 10 FPGA utilizes Intel’s 14 nm FinFET manufacturing process and incorporates state-of-the-art packaging technology, including EMIB.

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