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Intel Drops Xe-HP Server GPU Plans, to Stick with HPC and Client Graphics

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2021/11/01 01:23:18 (permalink)
https://www.techpowerup.com/288496/intel-drops-xe-hp-server-gpu-plans-to-stick-with-hpc-and-client-graphics
 
Intel has dropped plans to build Xe-HP server GPUs commercially. This line of products would have powered cloud-based graphics rendering instances, for cloud-gaming or cloud-rendering applications. An announcement to this effect came from Raja Koduri, overseeing the development and monetization of Xe. Koduri stated that Xe-HP based instances were originally set up to power Intel's oneAPI devcloud as a software development vehicle for oneAPI and the upcoming Aurora supercomputer of the Argonne National Laboratory.

The company will now focus on Xe as a compute accelerator in the form of Xe-HPC "Ponte Vecchio," and discrete graphics in the client segment, leveraging the Xe-HPG graphics architecture. The smallest derivatives, the Xe-LP, powers integrated graphics solutions found in the company's Core processors (11th Gen and later). Back in the August 2021 Architecture Day presentation, Intel's technical brief for Xe HPC revealed that the silicon itself features certain on-die hardware relevant to graphics rendering (more here). This would have gone on to power the Xe-HP server GPU solutions.
 
It is curious why Intel decided to backtrack on providing Intel graphics on servers. 
 
 
 


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    Re: Intel Drops Xe-HP Server GPU Plans, to Stick with HPC and Client Graphics 2021/11/01 03:59:11 (permalink)
    They really didn't back track as Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio is a better solution and is more scalable and can do computations and graphics.  The Xe-HPC is what is going into the exascale contracts that Intel has.


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