Intel Demonstrating Broadwell-EP with FPGA On-package at SC16

[Patrick Kennedy]

We knew these were coming next year, however, Intel is showing off Xeon E5 (Broadwell-EP generation) with on package Arria 10 FPGAs at SC16

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[RobertFontaine]

Super cool. Surprised they didn't show up on the Xeon Phi board first.

 

[mtekk]

Super cool. Surprised they didn't show up on the Xeon Phi board first.

I assume it is a die size thing. They only have so much space on a package and the Xeon Phi die are quite large. A Xeon E5 should be smaller than an Xeon Phi die leaving more room to fit an Arria 10 die on package.