News Intel Confirms New Meteor Lake ASIC for Big AI Performance Boost

[Admin]

Intel quietly released patch notes of a new Intel Linux driver designed to support a brand new ASIC known as the VPU. It will come with Meteor Lake CPUs to boost AI-focused workloads.

Intel Confirms New Meteor Lake ASIC for Big AI Performance Boost : Read more

 

[spongiemaster]

This new unit is designed to accelerate AI interference for deep learning applications

Are these units getting shipped to a new company called Cyberdyne?

 

[Exploding PSU]

Are these units getting shipped to a new company called Cyberdyne?

"Disrupting the industry", literally

 

[Thunder64]

Who writes this crap? "Interference"? Never heard of any "AI interference".

 

[david germain]

is it meant to be 'AI Inference '? i tried looking it up and google keeps sending me to AI Inference not Interference.

 

[bit_user]

Without a doubt, this new chip is built at least partially by the employees behind Movidius.

I wouldn't say "without a doubt". Intel also bought Nervana, Mobileye, and Habana Labs. And they have a reputation for duplication of effort, like how they created their failed Larrabee dGPU attempt completely independent of the chipset graphics group.

It would be interesting to know if it is related to Movidius, because at least the first couple generations used programmable VLIW cores. I expect they have more similarities than differences with the programmable cores in Intel's iGPUs. Movidius' big advantage in perf/W came from careful utilization of on-die SRAM - something that's going to face continual cost pressure, when shipped as part of every CPU Intel sells.

BTW, I'm disappointed with the article's title. It says "Intel Confirms..." leading me to believe they'd made some official comment about it. I already knew about the patch. Furthermore "...Big AI Performance Boost" suggests there were specific performance claims made, as well.