Intel Reveals New FPGAs for Edge, NFV, vRAN, Data Centers

Intel today announced a new series of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) designed to support new connectivity protocols and boost the acceleration of workloads in the cloud. The Intel Stratix 10 DX FPGA support Intel’s Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI), which is a first for an FPGA according to Intel; peripheral component interconnect express Gen4 x16; and a new controller for Intel Optane technology. “The combination of those capabilities as well as our roadmap to the compute express link, or CXL, provides a new level of connectivity, bandwidth, [and] latency capability to our customers,” said Patrick Dorsey, VP of product marketing at Intel’s Network and Custom Logic Group (NCLG). Intel named VMware as “one of many early access program participants.” Engineering sample forms are shipping broadly today, wider public availability will commence later this month, and production of devices is scheduled for later this year, Dorsey said.