10W to 50W, separate chip, inference. So what's the target market? Cars?
For data center inference it seems too unambitious -- surely larger, more power would make more sense? What does "Purely internal Intel chip" mean? It's not actually for sale, just an experiment living in Intel data centers (which do exactly how much inference?)
For personal use, being a separate chip seems a non-starter --- you need that NPU on the same chip as the CPU and GPU. (And presumably the good ship SS Intel is slowly turning in that direction, at its usual stately pace, and some time around 2025 will announce SoCs that do this. The more interesting question is how long AMD's cycles are, and whether THEY can learn anything from what the mobile market starting doing in 2017.)
You don't really need the NPU to be on the same chip as the CPU or GPU. Good example is Google's Coral TPU accelerator, which runs on a USB cable. At least this is PCIe.
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name99 - Sunday, August 25, 2019 - link
10W to 50W, separate chip, inference. So what's the target market? Cars?For data center inference it seems too unambitious -- surely larger, more power would make more sense? What does "Purely internal Intel chip" mean? It's not actually for sale, just an experiment living in Intel data centers (which do exactly how much inference?)
For personal use, being a separate chip seems a non-starter --- you need that NPU on the same chip as the CPU and GPU. (And presumably the good ship SS Intel is slowly turning in that direction, at its usual stately pace, and some time around 2025 will announce SoCs that do this. The more interesting question is how long AMD's cycles are, and whether THEY can learn anything from what the mobile market starting doing in 2017.)
Andy Chow - Monday, August 26, 2019 - link
You don't really need the NPU to be on the same chip as the CPU or GPU. Good example is Google's Coral TPU accelerator, which runs on a USB cable. At least this is PCIe.