Following the recent announcement of its new Bonanza Mine chips, Intel is back with a new chip well-suited for cryptocurrency mining, as well as improving performance in a wide range of applications such as network virtualization.
The chip giant's new Agilex M-series FPGA is based on Intel 7 process technology and aims to speed up a wide range of tasks, from high-performance computing (HPC) to storage and networking, according to a new release from Intel. . In fact, many of these applications are memory intensive, especially in terms of capacity, bandwidth, latency, and power efficiency.
Intel Agilex M-series FPGAs are also the highest memory bandwidth FPGAs in the industry with integrated HBM DRAM. However, this new chip incorporates several other innovations and functional features to improve high-speed networking, computing, and memory allocation for network, cloud, and edge-embedded applications.
In fact, Intel claims that its Agilex M-series FPGAs also offer twice the fabric performance per watt compared to competing 7nm FPGAs, such as the Xilinx Versal FPGA, whose parent company is now owned by Intel. AMD.
Intel Agilex M-series FPGAs
In addition to being the first member of the Intel Agilex device family to offer HMB2e memory, the company's new Agilex M-Series FPGAS also includes hardened drivers for other advanced memory technologies such as DDR4, DDR5 and LPDDR5.
Intel Product Marketing Director Sabrina Gomex provided additional information in a blog post about the importance of memory in the company's new FPGAs, saying:
“All Intel Agilex FPGAs, including members of the M-series, include fast on-chip SRAM in the form of MLAB and M20K blocks. These SRAM memories are integrated into the programmable logic structure of the FPGA and are therefore located immediately next to the logic that will exchange data with these memories. Some Intel Agilex M-series FPGAs also feature embedded HBM in the form of HBM2e memory stacks, managed by hardened memory controllers.
Intel's upcoming Agilex M-series FPGAs will be capable of handling huge data loads, supporting PCI Express Gen5, Compute Express Link, 400G Ethernet, and serial transceivers running at up to 116 Gbps.
We'll likely hear more from the chipmaker closer to the release of its new Agilex M-series FPGAs, hopefully later this year.
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