Intel has announced the first FPGA with integrated HBM2. According to Intel, the upcoming Stratix 10 MX is said to offer up to 10 times the memory bandwidth when compared to a DDR memory solutions. Stratix 10 MX is built on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process.



According to Intel, the bandwidth of the upcoming Stratix 10 MX makes it perfect for accelerating high-performance computing (HPC), data centres, network functions virtualization (NFV), and all that envirorments where fast mass data transfers are key. The new Intel Stratix 10 MX is built using HBM2 stacks connected in layers using TSV technology. Intel's Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) speeds communications between the memory and FPGA fabric, creating a high-performance FPGA with HBM2 memory.

Intel claims that this design should eliminate memory's bottleneck and it's more power efficient. Due to the speed of this FPGA chip, you can simultaneously read/write data and encrypt/decrypt data in real-time without without using CPU resources. The Stratix 10 MX isn't the only FPGA chip that is launching, according to the latest rumors the company should introduce two more models based on a similar design, the Stratix 10 MG and the Stratix 10 MS.




Source: Intel