Cryptocurrency: Intel Ramps 7nm GPU, Cryptos May See Potential Mining Use vs AMD/NVIDIA

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https://hothardware.com/news/intel-ponte-vecchio-7nm-exascale-gpu-for-hpc-market

Intel has unveiled its first discrete GPU solution that will hit the
market in 2020, code name Ponte Vecchio. Based on 7nm silicon
manufacturing and stack chiplet design with Intel's Foveros tech,
Ponte Vecchio will target HPC markets for supercomputers and AI
training in the datacenter. According to HotHardware, Ponte Vecchio
will employ a combination of both its Foveros 3D packaging and EMIB
(Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge) technologies, along with High
Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Compute Express Link (CXL), which will
operate over the newly ratified PCIe 5.0 interface and serve as Ponte
Vecchio's high-speed switch fabric connecting all GPU resources. Intel
is billing Ponte Vecchio as its first exascale GPU, proving its meddle
in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Aurora supercomputer. Aurora
will employ a topology of six Ponte Vecchio GPUs and two Intel Xeon
Scalable processors based on Intel's next generation Sapphire Rapids
architecture, along with Optane DC Persistent Memory on a single
blade. The new supercomputer is schedule to arrive sometime in 2021.