The annual Hot Chips convention is getting closer, an event where engineers from all kinds of companies show up to discuss the latest news. Among these we find IBM and Oracle, but also AMD and Intel are there with Jaguar and Knights Corner.
The focus on Hot Chips will be on mobile applications and so called 3D stacking, which is simply a matter of stacking silicon circuits on top of each other, but we of course also find the regular actors that wants to share their latest innovations.
Intel will take the stage and discuss third generation Core i processors, Ivy Bridge and its server equivalent Xeon E5. Also processors that can operate on a broad voltage spectrum will be discussed at Hot Chips – Near Threshold Voltage? Intel will also release more information on Knights Corner, which is a MIC architecture (Many Intel Cores) that is based on the Larrabee project. Knights Corner will sport “more than 50 x86 cores” with 4-way Hyper-threading and 8 GB GDDR5 memory. Knights Corner will be sold as Xeon Phi and is mainly intended to compete with Nvidia Quadro and Tesla, and AMD FirePro.
AMD will discuss its latest GCN architecture (Graphics Core Next) found in the HD 7000 series, and the latest APU; Trinity with processor cores from the Piledriver architecture. CTO Mark Papermaster will also hold a keynote on Ambidextrous Ecosystems during the conference. Most likely it will largely be about the HSA Foundation and how AMD will be more flexible in the choice of architecture.
AMD Jaguar will also be discussed in the open for the first time, the successor to Bobcat, which is used in the Brazos 2.0 platform. Bobcat was designed to scale down to under 1 watt in energy consumption and we expect Jaguar to do the same. Jaguar will be used in the Kabini platform, which will arrive in 2013.
IBM will present Power7+ for data centers, which is extension of Power7 made with 32 nanometer technology. With this architecture IBM is also expected to break its previous record of 5.2 GHz, which is held by its IBM z196 processor. Last we have Oracle that will discuss its latest Sparc T5 processors. Sparc T5 will sport 16 cores that can handle up to eight cores each – 128 threads per processor. With support for up to eight processors on the same motherboard, this means 1024 threads per motherboard for the new architecture.
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