Subj : Intel will be keeping its Falcon Shores GPU after all, though Bat
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Oct 03 2024 22:45:05

Intel will be keeping its Falcon Shores GPU after all, though Battlemage 
still faces strong headwinds

Date:
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:37:14 +0000

Description:
It seems that Intels aggressive budget cutting will still spare the Falcon 
Shores GPU.

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As Intel has been looking to cut costs as part of its next phase of 
transformation, its Falcon Shores datacenter GPU looked to be in danger of 
getting the axe. But a recent statement from the manufacturer brings about 
surprising news. 

An Intel spokesperson confirmed that Falcon Shores will survive and will 
still be released, with additional plans to integrate it with Gaudi AI 
processors. According to the spokesperson (and reported on by HPC Wire ), Our 
AI investments will complement and leverage our x86 franchise  with a focus 
on enterprise, cost-efficient inferencing. Our roadmap for Falcon Shores 
remains. 

The statement coincides with an official blog post that not only reiterated 
the integration of Gaudi AI IP into Falcon Shores, but that the latter is 
still set for a 2025 release date. The post then continued to explain that 
the hybrid architecture would offer an even more powerful platform for deep 
learning, providing an alternative to traditional GPU-heavy platforms. 

Merging x86 CPU cores with Xe-HPC GPU cores into an Xeon socket was something 
Intel has been planned for years, first introducing the concept back in 2022, 
and it now looks like it will come to fruition with Falcon Shores. Intels 
future with graphics cards 

Given that Intel's consumer GPU division is still under threat by the 
company's cost-cutting, I genuinely hope that the good news for Falcon Shores 
isn't the end of the story. 

Intels few offerings on the consumer graphics side have easily been some of 
the best cheap graphics cards on the market, balancing solid performance with 
great pricing. And honestly Team Red and Team Green could use the competition 
in that field considering how recent generations have seen little to no true 
budget cards. 

Of course, this doesnt mean that consumer graphics cards like the Intel Arc 
Battlemage won't get canceled. But hopefully, theyll be safe alongside Falcon 
Shores since we need more competition in the consumer card space. You might 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/stayin-alive-intels-falcon-shores-gpu-
will-survive-restructuring


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