Intel is launching yet another crypto mining chip

Date:
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 01:30:09 +0000

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Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs can be used for crypto mining, network virtualization and other memory-intensive applications.

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Following the recent announcement of its new Bonanza Mine chips, Intel is
back with a brand new chip well-suited to mining for cryptocurrency in addition to improving performance in a wide range of applications like
network virtualization.

The chip giant's new Agilex M-Series FPGA is built on Intel 7 process technology and aims to accelerate a wide range of tasks from high performance computing (HPC) to storage and networking according to a new press release . This is because many of these applications put enormous demands on memory including capacity, bandwidth, latency and power efficiency.

Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs are also the industry's highest memory bandwidth FPGAs with in-package HBM DRAM. However, this new chip incorporates several other new functional innovations and features to improve high-speed networking, computing and memory allocation for networks, cloud and embedded edge applications.

In fact, Intel says that its Agilex M-Series FPGAs also provide two times the fabric performance per watt when compared to competitive 7nm FPGAs like the Xilinx Versal FPGA whose parent company is now owned by AMD . Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs

In addition to being the first member of the Intel Agilex device family to provide HMB2e memory, the company's new Agilex M-Series FPGAS also include hardened controllers for other state-of-the-art memory technologies like
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Director of product marketing at Intel, Sabrina Gomex provided further
insight in a blog post on 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 SRAMs are integrated into the FPGAs programmable-logic fabric and are therefore located
immediately adjacent to the logic that will exchange data with these
memories. Some Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs also incorporate in-package HBM in the form of HBM2e memory stacks, managed by hardened memory controllers.

Intel's upcoming Agilex M-Series FPGAs will be able to process enormous data loads as they support PCI Express Gen5 , Compute Express Link, 400G Ethernet and serial transceivers operating at up to 116 Gbps.

We'll likely hear more from the chipmaker once its new Agilex M-Series FPGAs get closer to their launch hopefully later this year. We've also rounded up the best workstations and the best mining rigs

Via The Register



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