A first look at Intel Gaudi 2
Wccftech colleagues have had the opportunity to get their hands in preview on some confidential documents inherent to the next generation of AI accelerators from Intel, which should, presumably, offer a rather substantial leap in performance compared to the models currently on the market. The platform, called Habana Gaudi 2, was designed for use in data centers for deep learning. We remind you that the Santa Clara-based company offers its customers two separate lines of products for AI training and AI inference: for the first, the Gaudi range is available, which also includes the next HL 2080 chip (of which you will find a photo a little further down and which should be launched in May), while for the second it relies on Goya chips (and it is not at all excluded that, in addition to Gaudi 2, Intel is also working on Goya 2). >Photo Credit: Wccftech Unfortunately, Wccftech was unable to obtain the full specifications of the Gaudi 2 HL 2080 chip, but from the photo we can certainly see the presence of 6 HBM dies, which if they were of type HBM2 would guarantee a total of 48GB of memory on board, while it would even reach 96GB (or more) in the case of HBM3. As for the rest, we see a total of 24 VRMs with a 12 + 12 design, which would suggest that the card is capable of handling 50% more power than previous generation chips, which stopped at one design. 8 + 8 for a total of 16 VRMs. As for the production process, Eitan Medina, COO of Habana Labs, had stated in an interview that the Intel Gaudi HL 2020 chip would be made with a 7nm node, without specifying whether it was Intel 7 (formerly known as Intel 10nm) or Intel 4 (formerly Intel 7nm).
Certainly, the new Intel Gaudi 2 HL 2080 chip should offer much higher performance than its predecessor, competing with other giants in the DL / ML sector, including NVIDIA.
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