Intel Announces Unmatched AI and Analytics Platform with New Processor, Memory, Storage and FPGA Solutions
June 18 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
What’s New: Intel today introduced its 3rd Gen Intel®
Xeon® Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and
software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the
development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics
workloads running in data center, network and intelligent-edge
environments. As the industry’s first mainstream server processor
with built-in bfloat16 support, Intel’s new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable
processors makes AI inference and training more widely deployable
on general-purpose CPUs for applications that include image
classification, recommendation engines, speech recognition and
language modeling.
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Intel announces its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon
Scalable processors on June 18, 2020. The processors extend Intel's
investment in built-in AI acceleration through the integration of
bfloat16 support into the processor’s unique Intel DL Boost
technology. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
“The ability to rapidly deploy AI and data
analytics is essential for today’s businesses. We remain committed
to enhancing built-in AI acceleration and software optimizations
within the processor that powers the world’s data center and edge
solutions, as well as delivering an unmatched silicon foundation to
unleash insight from data.” –Lisa Spelman, Intel corporate vice
president and general manager, Xeon and Memory Group
Why It’s Important: AI and analytics open new
opportunities for customers across a broad range of industries,
including finance, healthcare, industrial, telecom and
transportation. IDC predicts that by 2021, 75% of commercial
enterprise apps will use AI1. And by 2025, IDC estimates that
roughly a quarter of all data generated will be created in real
time, with various internet of things (IoT) devices creating 95% of
that volume growth2.
Unequaled Portfolio Breadth and Ecosystem Support for AI and
Analytics: Intel’s new data platforms, coupled with a thriving
ecosystem of partners using Intel AI technologies, are optimized
for businesses to monetize their data through the deployment of
intelligent AI and analytics services.
- New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors: Intel is
further extending its investment in built-in AI acceleration in the
new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors through the integration
of bfloat16 support into the processor’s unique Intel DL Boost®
technology. Bfloat16 is a compact numeric format that uses half the
bits as today’s FP32 format but achieves comparable model accuracy
with minimal — if any — software changes required. The addition of
bfloat16 support accelerates both AI training and inference
performance in the CPU. Intel-optimized distributions for leading
deep learning frameworks (including TensorFlow and Pytorch) support
bfloat16 and are available through the Intel AI Analytics toolkit.
Intel also delivers bfloat16 optimizations into its OpenVINO®
toolkit and the ONNX Runtime environment to ease inference
deployments.
The 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named “Cooper
Lake”) evolve Intel’s 4- and 8-socket processor offering. The
processor is designed for deep learning, virtual machine (VM)
density, in-memory database, mission-critical applications and
analytics-intensive workloads. Customers refreshing aging
infrastructure can expect an average estimated gain of 1.9 times on
popular workloads3 and up to 2.2 times more VMs4 compared with
5-year-old 4-socket platform equivalents.
- New Intel Optane persistent memory: As part of the 3rd
Gen Intel Xeon Scalable platform, the company also announced the
Intel Optane® persistent memory 200 series, providing customers up
to 4.5TB of memory per socket to manage data intensive workloads,
such as in-memory databases, dense virtualization, analytics and
high-powered computing.
- New Intel 3D NAND SSDs: For systems that store data in
all-flash arrays, Intel announced the availability of its
next-generation high-capacity Intel 3D NAND SSDs, the Intel SSD
D7-P5500 and P5600. These 3D NAND SSDs are built with Intel’s
latest triple-level cell (TLC) 3D NAND technology and an all-new
low-latency PCIe controller to meet the intense IO requirements of
AI and analytics workloads and advanced features to improve IT
efficiency and data security.
- First Intel AI-optimized FPGA: Intel disclosed its
upcoming Intel Stratix® 10 NX FPGAs, Intel’s first AI-optimized
FPGAs targeted for high-bandwidth, low-latency AI acceleration.
These FPGAs will offer customers customizable, reconfigurable and
scalable AI acceleration for compute-demanding applications such as
natural language processing and fraud detection. Intel Stratix 10
NX FPGAs include integrated high-bandwidth memory (HBM),
high-performance networking capabilities and new AI-optimized
arithmetic blocks called AI Tensor Blocks, which contain dense
arrays of lower-precision multipliers typically used for AI model
arithmetic.
- OneAPI cross-architecture development for ongoing AI
innovation: As Intel expands its advanced AI product portfolio
to meet diverse customer needs, it is also paving the way to
simplify heterogeneous programming for developers with its oneAPI
cross-architecture tools portfolio to accelerate performance and
increase productivity. With these advanced tools, developers can
accelerate AI workloads across Intel CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs, and
future-proof their code for today’s and the next generations of
Intel processors and accelerators.
- Enhanced Intel Select Solutions portfolio addresses IT’s top
requirements: Intel has enhanced its Select Solutions portfolio
to accelerate deployment of IT’s most urgent requirements
highlighting the value of pre-verified solution delivery in today’s
rapidly evolving business climate. Announced today are three new
and five enhanced Intel Select Solutions focused on analytics, AI
and hyper-converged infrastructure. The enhanced Intel Select
Solution for Genomics Analytics is being used around the world to
find a vaccine for COVID-19 and the new Intel Select Solution for
VMware Horizon VDI on vSAN is being used to enhance remote
learning.
When Products are Available: The 3rd Gen Intel Xeon
Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory 200 series
are shipping to customers today. In May, Facebook announced that
3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are the foundation for its
newest Open Compute Platform (OCP) servers, and other leading CSPs,
including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, have announced they are
adopting the next-generation processors. General OEM systems
availability is expected in the second half of 2020. The Intel SSD
D7-P5500 and P5600 3D NAND SSDs are available today. And the Intel
Stratix 10 NX FPGA is expected to be available in the second half
of 2020.
More Context: Accelerating AI and Analytics – Intel
Processors, FPGAs, Memory & Storage, and Software (Press Kit) |
Unmatched AI and Analytics Platform from Intel (YouTube Video)
About Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating
world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches
lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the
design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our
customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the
cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash
the potential of data to transform business and society for the
better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to
newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
1 IDC, Worldwide Storage for Cognitive/AI Workloads Forecast,
2018–2022, #US43707918e, April 2018
2 IDC, Edge computing, 5G and AI — the perfect storm for
government systems, Shawn McCarthy, April 8, 2020
Configurations:
3 1.9x average estimated gain on popular workloads with the new
3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8380H processor vs. 5-year old
platform. See claim 11 www.intel.com/3rd-gen-xeon-configs
4 Up to 2.2x more Virtual Machines with the new 3rd Gen Intel®
Xeon® Scalable platform and Intel® SSD Data Center Family vs.
5-year old 4-socket platform. See claim 4
www.intel.com/3rd-gen-xeon-configs
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