Jeff McVeigh, vice president and general manager of Intel's supercomputing group, said in a news conference ahead of ISC High that Falcon Shores is a "greater architectural" change that combines x86 and Xe graphics cores into a single package. Performance Supercomputing Conference.
Intel earlier this year laid out a roadmap for Falcon Shores to launch later in 2024, and said it would deliver significant improvements in bandwidth, performance-per-watt, compute density and memory capacity.
The Falcon Shores architecture will use a chiplet approach, in which multiple chips and different processor modules fabricated using different manufacturing processes can be tightly packed into a single chip package. This allows Intel to do a higher level of customization on the types of CPUs, GPUs, I/Os, memory types, power management and other circuits it can put into the chip. Falcon Shores offers "all the benefits of having tightly coupled tiles next to each other in a single package," McVeigh said, adding, "The chip will be able to deliver the benefits of advanced packaging, IO capabilities, shared memory and A single programming model."
However, McVeigh said it's not yet customizable to the level customers might want. "It's not like you design your own XPU, we'll produce it. We'll set a version of it. But it allows us to be more flexible later in the design process based on workloads that the market demands, if there's some new technology like artificial intelligence Having become so popular over the past five years, as new trends emerge, we can more easily adapt and incorporate them into designs," McVeigh said. Falcon Shores will have a more "CPU-like" programming model with a shared memory environment, McVeigh said.
