Intel has announced top-tier OEM adoption of Intel’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration in their server lineup. This is the first major use of reprogrammable silicon chips to help speed up mainstream applications for the modern data center. Intel® FPGAs are the foundation for a new type of data center with the versatility and speed to handle a variety of workloads, from analytics to financial services.
With exponential data growth, data center operators have to balance the need for performance at scale with operational efficiency. To boost performance and power efficiency, data centers are adopting Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to work in tandem with an accelerator to support data-intensive performance requirements within specific functions in a workload.
Intel FPGAs deliver the right match of accelerator-driven performance and operational efficiency in a new range of Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based servers coming from our OEM customers. Leading OEMs, Dell EMC and Fujitsu will incorporate a complete Intel hardware and software stack in their individual offerings, consisting of Intel® Programmable Acceleration Cards with Arria® 10 GX FPGA and the Intel Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon Scalable processor with FPGAs.
The availability of servers enabling FPGA acceleration is another milestone in the rapid ascension of Intel’s programmable chips. The acceleration stack provides a software development environment, making FPGA performance and flexibility accessible to the broader developer community.
For more information, visit the Intel FPGA Acceleration Hub.