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Intel unveils new Xeon chip with integrated FPGA, touts 20x performance boost

Late yesterday, Intel quietly announced one of the biggest ever changes to its chip lineup: It will soon offer a new type of Xeon CPU with an integrated FPGA. This new Xeon+FPGA chip will fit in the standard E5 LGA2011 socket, but the integrated FPGA will allow each chip to be customized to specific workloads. This move is almost certainly intended to make Intel-x86 a better all-round platform for a wider variety of workloads in enterprise and data center settings, and to dissuade customers from switching to GPGPU accelerators from the likes of Nvidia.

The Xeon+FPGA also raises the question of whether Intel would ever consider integrating an FPGA into its consumer Core line of chips — it’s exceedingly unlikely, but it it’s hard to deny how awesome it would be if next-gen games and apps had access to an FPGA to speed up core processes. But more on that at the end of the story.

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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost