Intel Disclosure: Jumping Directly To Falcon Shores GPU In 2025, Argonne Supercomputer Ready by 2023

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Intel has made several new disclosures in a blog written by the GPU boss and current interim General Manager of AXG (since Raja moved on to become the Chief Architect of Intel), Jeff McVeigh. Distilling the blog, we can find several nuggets of new information that would be very interesting for investors.

1. Intel has given us a tentative launch date for the multi-exaflop Argonne supercomputer. Featuring 60,000 Max Series GPUs and 20,000 Max Series CPUs, the installation will feature performance levels over 2 exaflops and will become available to researchers by the third quarter of 2023. The Borealis test system for Argonne has already gone live so there is every reason to believe Intel will hit this milestone as well.

2. The company has announced two more design wins for its datacenter series of products:

3. Intel is also taking aim at NVIDIA's data center products, specifically the A100. As Jeff points out in his blog, for material sciences, nuclear engineering, cosmology and plasma physics codes, researchers have measured a 30% to 260% speedup over leading alternative GPUs (from NVIDIA).

4. Finally, we have what is probably the most exciting (at least for us tech enthusiasts) news of the day. There had been so many rumors that Ponte Vecchio (Intel Max Series GPU) might be the last datacenter GPU on the horizon but I am happy to report that this is not the case. Absolutely crushing those rumors, Intel is proudly announcing its datacenter roadmap which will have a two year cadence and will feature Falcon Shores arriving sometime in 2025 to succeed Ponte Vecchio.

Targeted for introduction in 2025, Falcon Shores’ flexible chiplet-based architecture will address the exponential growth of computing needs for HPC and AI. We are