Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B

Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by stochastic_monk on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:47PM (#16498834)

I’m surprised the Stratix FPGA platform isn’t getting more marketing. Half a TiB/s memory bandwidth [0] (white paper) when GPU’s memory transfer is the bulk of the overhead could help Intel make up for lost gains in SIMD application marketshare.

[0]: https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/p...

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Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by someguy12 on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:11PM (#16506227)

Although this is misplaced, I'll reply anyway.

There isn't more buzz around the Stratix 10 MX because it's a phantom chip. Intel's December press release clearly states that the chips are available but you can not buy one of these chips today. A blogger did some research and came to the conclusion that the press release claims were simply not true:

https://semiaccurate.com/2017/12/19/intels-claims-fpgas-hbm-...

In contrast, Xilinx released a video of their competing chip working with all channels running at the full 460GB/s on day 1 of silicon bring up:

https://www.xilinx.com/video/fpga/first-virtex-ultrascale-pl...

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Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by kev009 on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:19AM (#16500144)

Maybe misparented comment?

HP has GenZ, IBM is going to move from DDR or DDR buffers to CAPI attached RAM -- expect to see HBM2 attached to CPUs in 2019. I'd be happy to discuss that kind of thing in email.

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Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by stochastic_monk on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:02PM (#16503356)

Certainly misplaced! It was late, and somehow I scrambled IBM Research and Intel. I was thinking about how Intel's marketing is generally quite bad, whether it's unfair benchmarks or not knowing which products to actually push.

Please disregard.

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