Intel’s stepping back and taking a more realistic approach to the enterprise GPU market.
Throughout the end of last year and the beginning of this year, Intel finally released its full line of data center-focused Arctic Sound and Ponte Vecchio GPUs, as well as its Sapphire Rapids CPUs. These chips have been a long time coming, but they offer solid performance for high performance compute operations, as evinced in their adoption for the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Labs.
Last we heard, Intel’s Accelerated Computing Group (AXG) was going to follow these GPU parts up with Lancaster Sound and Rialto Bridge. Lancaster sound was planned to be an incremental improvement on Arctic Sound, using a revised Xe-HP architecture, while Rialto Bridge was going to be a refined Ponte Vecchio with improved density leading to a higher core count.
It turns out that neither of those parts are destined to see the light of day. In an editorial posted on Intel’s website, Corporate Vice President and Interim General Manager of AXG Jeff McVeigh announced the cancellation of both product lines.
