Re:Intel to Set Its FPGA Unit Free to Pursue Its Own Path – ...
by mathisfun123 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @08:30PM
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> AMD's software roadmap for AI/datacentre leans heavily on Vitis (for software) and AI Engines (as an execution platform).
This is incorrect along all 3 dimensions:
1. AMD has its own data-center class GPUs - I don't know how good they are because I don't work on them
2. Vitis is just a brand and will be taken out of the equation before the end of the year.
3. I don't know what execution platform means because AI Engine is one core in a grid of such cores on the chiplets that are on the Phoenix platform (shipped with new Ryzens) and the VCK boards.
> It's Xilinx technology, but you should expect it to look more like a GPU accelerator than a traditional LUTs-and-routing FPGA.
It is correct that there are no LUTs in the fabric but there are "switchboxes" for data traffic and you do have do the routing yourself (or rely on the compiler).
This is incorrect along all 3 dimensions:
1. AMD has its own data-center class GPUs - I don't know how good they are because I don't work on them
2. Vitis is just a brand and will be taken out of the equation before the end of the year.
3. I don't know what execution platform means because AI Engine is one core in a grid of such cores on the chiplets that are on the Phoenix platform (shipped with new Ryzens) and the VCK boards.
> It's Xilinx technology, but you should expect it to look more like a GPU accelerator than a traditional LUTs-and-routing FPGA.
It is correct that there are no LUTs in the fabric but there are "switchboxes" for data traffic and you do have do the routing yourself (or rely on the compiler).