Intel Shows Off 8-Core, 528-Thread Processor With 1TB/s Of Co-Packaged Optics
The Register, Friday, September 1,2023
'Embarrassingly parallel' protoype baked for DARPA to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at massive scale
Intel has used this week's Hot Chips conference in California to show off a 528-thread processor with 1TB/s silicon photonics interconnects that's designed to chew the largest analytics workloads, while sipping power.
For those hoping for a hyper-parallelized Xeon, this isn't that. The chip isn't even x86 based.
Instead, it was purpose built using a custom RISC architecture for DARPA's Hierarchical Identity Verify Exploit (HIVE) program. That US military initiative seeks to develop a graph analytics processor capable of churning through streaming data 100 times faster than conventional compute architectures, while also consuming less power.