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L’architecture ARM prend pied dans la stratégie d’Intel

Avec la commercialisation de son processeur FPGA Stratix 10, Intel confirme son intérêt pour la technologie ARM. Ces composants sont destinés à accélérer certaines opérations spécifiques : Machine Learning, Big Data ou encore chiffrement.

L’architecture ARM vient de franchir un nouveau palier dans la stratégie d’Intel. En début de semaine, le fondeur de Santa Clara a annoncé la mise en production de ses puces Stratix 10. Il s’agit de composants FPGA (field-programmable gate array) dits reprogrammables (contrairement aux processeurs x86 au jeu d’instructions figé). Autrement dit, les FPGA peuvent être configurés après leur fabrication pour exécuter des tâches spécifiques, notamment des compressions/décompressions, des opérations de chiffrement/déchiffrement, des traitements Hadoop, du Machine Learning, etc. Les Stratix 10 sont issus de l’acquisition d’Altera en juin 2015.

Le Stratix 10 combine la technologie de gravure tri-gate en 14 nanomètres (nm) avec « une nouvelle architecture appelée HyperFlex », évoque Intel dans son communiqué. Derrière cette nouvelle architecture, se cache bien une technologie ARM. Un quadri-cœur Cortex-A53 64 bits compose en effet le moteur du Stratix 10. Celui-ci serait en mesure de livrer une puissance allant jusqu’à 10 TFlops (soit 10 000 milliards d’opérations en virgules flottantes par seconde) à 1 GHz de fréquence. Le processeur est doté d’un bus de 1 Tbit/s pour mémoire HBM2 et afficherait une consommation électrique inférieure de 70% à son prédécesseur Stratix V (à performances égales).

Microsoft premier client du Stratix ?

Bref, le Stratix 10, qu’avait présenté le CEO d’Intel Brian Krzanich le 18 août dernier à l’Intel Developer Forum, s’inscrit comme un monstre de puissance visant à répondre aux besoins de hautes performances des applications de traitements intensifs de données réclamées par les datacenters, les infrastructures réseau, le Cloud computing, les radars et autres systèmes d’imageries. Le tout avec une consommation énergétique maîtrisée. Reste à savoir à qui Intel va vendre sa nouvelle famille de processeurs hautes performances sans, potentiellement, altérer les ventes de ses Xeon pour serveurs.

Microsoft pourrait être un de ces clients. Si aucune annonce officielle n’est avancée à ce jour, Redmond ne cache pas son intérêt pour les composants FPGA. En 2014, l’éditeur faisait état de tests dans une ferme de 1 632 serveurs où des puces reprogrammables étaient couplées à des Xeon pour accélérer, à moindre coût, les performances de son moteur de recherche Bing. A l’époque, les puces FPGA étaient fournies par… Altera.

Du FPGA pour Azure

Connus sous le nom de projet Catapult, ces travaux ont visiblement porté leurs fruits puisque les composants FPGA se retrouvent aujourd’hui dans les datacenters d’Azure, comme l’a confirmé mardi Satya Nadella à l’occasion de Experience’16 à Paris. Il y a donc de fortes chances pour que les composants du projet Catapult soient fournis par Intel/Altera. Une belle vitrine technologique en vue pour Intel qui a loupé le marché des terminaux mobiles et pourrait ainsi conforter ses positions sur celui des applications liées au traitement massif de données et à l’intelligence artificielle. Un dernier segment en pleine explosion avec l’émergence des robots, drones, voitures autonomes et autres objets connectés. Une façon aussi pour le fondeur de renouer le partenariat historique qu’il a tissé avec Microsoft, alliance qui avait permis d’imposer l’architecture x86 dans les ordinateurs personnels au début des années 80.

Intel a d’ailleurs travaillé à intégrer des puces FPGA avec des Xeon x86 afin de les seconder pour accélérer certaines opérations spécifiques. Reste maintenant à vérifier que l’entreprise de Santa Clara va bien continuer à utiliser des cœurs ARM pour motoriser ses composants FPGA ou bien sera tentée de les remplacer par des cœurs x86. Ce qui ne lui a pas réussi par le passé. Sur le segment de la mobilité, la firme avait ainsi abandonné la technologie ARM au profit des processeurs maison Atom, avec la revente de sa filiale ARM XScale à Marvell en 2006.

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The ARM architecture foothold in Intel's strategy

with the marketing of its Stratix FPGA processor 10, Intel confirmed its interest in ARM technology. These components are intended to accelerate specific operations: Machine Learning, Big Data or encryption.

The ARM architecture has taken a new step in Intel's strategy. Earlier this week, the Santa Clara chipmaker announced the production of its chips Stratix 10. These FPGAs (field-programmable gate array) said reprogrammable (as opposed to x86 processors to the game instructions frozen) . In other words, the FPGA can be configured after manufacturing to perform specific tasks, including compressions / decompression, encryption / decryption operations, Hadoop salaries, Machine Learning, etc. Stratix 10 are from the acquisition in June 2015. Altera

Stratix 10 combines etching technology tri-gate in 14 nanometer (nm) with a "new architecture called HyperFlex" recalls Intel in a statement. Behind this new architecture, hides a good ARM technology. A quad Cortex-A53 heart 64bit consists indeed the engine Stratix 10. This one would be able to deliver power up to 10 TFlops (or 10,000 trillion operations per second in floating point) to 1 GHz frequency. The processor has a bus 1 Tbit / s for HBM2 memory and would display a lower power consumption of 70% to its predecessor Stratix V (for equal performance).

Microsoft first customer Stratix?

In short, the Stratix 10, that had introduced the Intel CEO Brian Krzanich August 18 at the Intel Developer Forum, fits like a monster of power to meet the needs of high performance intensive data processing applications demanded by data center infrastructure network, cloud computing, radar and other imaging systems. All with a smooth energy consumption. The question is to which Intel will sell its new high performance processor family without potentially affect sales of its Xeon for servers.

Microsoft could be one of those clients. If no official announcement has advanced so far, Redmond does not hide his interest in FPGA devices. In 2014, the publisher was state tests on a farm in 1632 where servers reprogrammable chips were coupled with Xeon to speed, cost, performance of its Bing search engine. At the time, the FPGA chips were provided by Altera ....

From FPGA to Azure

Known by the project name Catapult, this work has obviously paid off because the FPGA devices are found today in data centers Azure, as the Satya Nadella said Tuesday during Experience'16 in Paris. So there are chances that the components of the project are provided by Catapult Intel / Altera. A great technological showcase for Intel has missed the mobile device market and could thus consolidate its positions on the applications related to massive data processing and artificial intelligence. A final segment booming with the emergence of robots, drones, autonomous cars and other connected devices. As a way for the chipmaker to revive the historic partnership it has forged with Microsoft alliance that allowed to impose x86 personal computers in the early 80

Intel has also worked to integrate chips FPGA with Xeon x86 to assist them to accelerate specific operations. It remains to verify that the Santa Clara company is well continue to use ARM cores to Power FPGAs or be tempted to replace them with x86 cores. Which has failed him in the past. In the segment of mobility, the firm had thus abandoned ARM technology for the benefit of Atom processors home with the resale of its subsidiary ARM XScale to Marvell in 2006.

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