Intel Lake Crest Chips, Have more power that modern GPU's

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

Intel has released some additional information regarding their Lake Crest Chips. Intel explains that they will be aimed at the deep neural network sector, and that the chips will deliver and unprocessed amount of compute density that is much higher than even modern GPU's. 

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We have developed the Nervana hardware especially with regard to deep learning workloads,” said Rao (Intel VP Datacenter Group and General Manager for AI solutions).In this area, two operations are often used: matrix multiplication and convolution

Intel recently acquired the Firm Nervana hardware for $350 million in August last year. 

 

The Lake Crest Platform will work in conjunction with Intel's Xeon Processors. 

 

Not only will Lake crest provide an unprecedented amount of Compute density, but it will also feature 32 GB's of HBM2 Memory and an 8 Tb/s memory access speed.

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This will increase the parallelism of arithmetic operations for the chip by a factor of 10.

What do you think? should Linus try and get a few just because he can or should he leave it up to the likes of other, more qualified people? 

 

Source: http://wccftech.com/intel-lake-crest-chip-detailed-32-gb-hbm2-1-tb/

[2FA]

8 minutes ago, JohnnyCorporalTech said:

What do you think? should Linus try and get a few just because he can or should he leave it up to the likes of other, more qualified people?

Can't tell if sarcasm or...

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

12 minutes ago, JohnnyCorporalTech said:

Intel has released some additional information regarding their Lake Crest Chips. Intel explains that they will be aimed at the deep neural network sector, and that the chips will deliver and unprocessed amount of compute density that is much higher than even modern GPU's. 

Intel recently acquired the Firm Nervana hardware for $350 million in August last year. 

 

The Lake Crest Platform will work in conjunction with Intel's Xeon Processors. 

 

Not only will Lake crest provide an unprecedented amount of Compute density, but it will also feature 32 GB's of HBM2 Memory and an 8 Tb/s memory access speed.

What do you think? should Linus try and get a few just because he can or should he leave it up to the likes of other, more qualified people? 

 

Source: http://wccftech.com/intel-lake-crest-chip-detailed-32-gb-hbm2-1-tb/

Isn't it obvious that Linus is gonna get like, $70k  worth of this stuff?

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Can't tell if sarcasm or...

Sorry, Yes was meant to be sarcastic. Obviously Linus should get 8. 

[Vigilante505]

3 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

Isn't it obvious that Linus is gonna get like, $70k  worth of this stuff?

and use it to line his feet and ask "how well do these processors work as shoes?"

 

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

1 minute ago, Vigilante505 said:

and use it to line his feet and ask "how well do these processors work as shoes?"

 

Or:

New LTT eBike???

[COUPER MILLAR]

But will they run  crysis at 8k?

[Misanthrope]

50 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

Isn't it obvious that Linus is gonna get like, $70k  worth of this stuff?

For that much I think he might not even get one or just one this looks to be fairly big leagues stuff.

[FourCorners]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the rumours regarding Intel collaborating with AMD and using Radeon GPUs as iGPUs on Intel CPUs

[Citadelen]

Of course, we haven't performance numbers yet, but it seems these hardware-hardware-software systems are the future of deep learning. If they work as well as we're being told then I don't see how Nvidia can hold on for much longer. Intel has Xeon-Lake Crest-Nervana, and AMD has Naples-Vega-ROCm.

[laminutederire]

4 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Linus will be getting one ofc

Doesn't matter if LMG or all of it viewers have no use for it

Because Intel wants the publicity for their products and Linus WILL sing praises for the $

Smaller corporations blow millions on PR events, what is one chip?

Because  nearly no one in Linus' public will buy of those. The rare who do will do it because their work ask for it

[Stefan1024]

It's basicly an ASIC for deep learning / AI.

Don't expect any use for a normal consumer.

[RagnarokDel]

1 hour ago, Stefan1024 said:

It's basicly an ASIC for deep learning / AI.

Don't expect any use for a normal consumer.

or any other type of workload.

[leadeater]

9 hours ago, JohnnyCorporalTech said:

Not only will Lake crest provide an unprecedented amount of Compute density, but it will also feature 32 GB's of HBM2 Memory and an 8 Tb/s memory access speed.

Same generic specifications for upcoming Vega GPUs, amount of HBM2 and 8Tb/s (1TB/s) memory bandwidth doesn't mean a heck of a lot.

 

And I think either wccftech or Intel has forgotten what the meaning of unprecedented is .

[Guest Kloaked]

When I clicked on this thread from the front page of the forum I was expecting something totally different.

 

 

 

[leadeater]

3 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

When I clicked on this thread from the front page of the forum I was expecting something totally different.

Not sure what you were expecting but it wasn't going to be anything amazing at 3am which it is atm .

[Jessop]

9 hours ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Can't tell if sarcasm or...

I would like to build a server with multiple CPU's to play pac man

[Guest Kloaked]

16 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Not sure what you were expecting but it wasn't going to be anything amazing at 3am which it is atm .

You're in the wrong time zone. It's currently 9am-ish.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

On 2/5/2017 at 11:50 AM, laminutederire said:

Because  nearly no one in Linus' public will buy of those. The rare who do will do it because their work ask for it

You think of advertisement too linearly, but that's not how it works. It's not about viewers buying Lake Crest chips. It's about people buying i3s because they just know "Intel pwns computing!", just like nVidia was selling tons of more expensive GPUs before even having the fastest GPU in the market. Even some IT professionals will bias their corporate hardware purchases due to "brand image".

 

Same reason why car / motorbike manufacturers make Formula 1 / Le Mans / Moto GP / Rally /etc teams, despite no one in their audience buying those models+tuning - some are not even available for purchase (like F1).

[Centurius]

So that's where all the Kaby Lake performance upgrades went.