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At SC20: BittWare Launches IA-840F with Intel Agilex FPGA and Support for oneAPI

Concord, NH – Nov. 17, 2020 – Bittware today unveiled the IA-840F, the company’s Intel Agilex-based FPGA card designed to deliver performance-per-watt improvements for data center, networking and edge ...
The Next Platform

Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU

For any given compute engine, there is the vendor who makes the chip and therefore a lot of the money and then there are the downstream system architects, system integrators, original design ...
The Next Platform

The GPU Is The Worst – And Best – Thing To Happen To The FPGA

A decade or so before the GPU started storming the datacenter thanks to Nvidia’s Tesla GPU accelerators and their CUDA parallel programming environment and CPU offload model, FPGAs were starting to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Embedded GPU for FPGA, Achieving Over 770 MHz Operating Frequency With Unconstrained Compile

A technical paper titled “eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA” was published by researchers at Intel Corporation and Imperial College London. “This paper introduces the eGPU, a SIMT soft ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Deep Learning Hardware: FPGA vs. GPU

FPGAs or GPUs, that is the question. Since the popularity of using machine learning algorithms to extract and process the information from raw data, it has been a race between FPGA and GPU vendors to ...