At Intel’s Architecture Day 2021, Raja Koduri and Intel architects provided details on two new x86 core architectures; Intel’s first performance hybrid architecture, code-named “Alder Lake,” with the intelligent Intel® Thread Director workload scheduler; “Sapphire Rapids,” the next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor for the data center; new infrastructure processing units; and upcoming graphics architectures, including the Xe HPG and Xe HPC microarchitectures, and Alchemist and Ponte Vecchio SoCs.
These new architectures will power upcoming high-performance products and establish the foundations for
the next era of Intel innovation aimed at meeting the world’s ever-growing demand for more computing power.
Raja Koduri addressed the importance of architectural advancement to meet this demand, saying:
“Architecture is alchemy of hardware and software. It blends the best transistors for a given engine, connects
them through advanced packaging, integrates high-bandwidth, low-power caches, and equips them with high-capacity, high-bandwidth memories and low-latency scalable interconnects for hybrid computing clusters in a package, while also ensuring that all software accelerates seamlessly. … The breakthroughs we disclosed today demonstrate how architecture will satisfy the crushing demand for more compute performance as workloads from the desktop to the data center become larger, more complex and more diverse than ever.”
