Intel Launches Stratix 10 NX FPGAs Targeting AI Workloads

Intel today introduced its first AI-optimized FPGA – the Stratix 10 NX – which features expanded AI Tensor blocks (30 multipliers and 30 accumulators), integrated HBM memory, and high bandwidth networking. The new chip continues leveraging Intel's chiplet architecture and the FPGA portion of the chip is fabbed using Intel's 14nm technology. Intel reports the new FPGA will deliver up to 15X more INT8 compute than the Stratix 10 MX, which was introduced in late 2017 and whose DSP block only had two multipliers and two accumulators. The new chip also features "up to 57.8 Gig PAM4 transceivers and hard Intel Ethernet blocks for high efficiency." The Stratix 10 NX will be available later this year, according to Intel.