With the launch of their first-iteration Xe-LP structure now firmly within the proverbial rearview mirror, Intel’s GPU division has turned its sights in direction of its subsequent consumer-focused GPU structure, Xe-HPG. Today the corporate has posted a really mild teaser video promoting the forthcoming structure.
Xe HPG microarchitecture teaser = 🍬👀 pic.twitter.com/kdzBokBiW4
— Intel Graphics (@IntelGraphics) March 18, 2021
The temporary, 30 second promotional video highlights how Xe-HPG is constructed on high of Intel’s present Xe-LP structure. And whereas there aren’t any concrete technical particulars disclosed throughout the in any other case summary video, it’s notable that the video does briefly present 5 layers of blocks on the Xe-HPG chip. Assuming for the second that Intel isn’t being fairly literal right here – a 5 layer GPU could be extravagant and onerous to chill, to say the least – it’s extra probably an allusion to the variety of Execution Units (EUs) or another side of the structure.
Finally, the video additionally features a brief block of binary textual content as an additional sport for the viewers to play.
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For the second we don’t have a stable thought of what it means. But little doubt somebody will determine it out earlier than too lengthy.
Otherwise, this can little doubt be the primary of many teasers for Xe-HPG. While Intel hasn’t supplied a newer roadmap for chips based mostly on the structure, the corporate beforehand introduced in 2020 that they have been aiming for a 2021 launch. And with the primary DG2 chip already within the labs as of October, we all know that Intel is properly underway in mentioning Xe-HPG silicon.
