Freed from embargo now are the key details from this first day of Intel Innovation 2023:
- As covered already with the earlier Linux Foundation embargo passing, the Intel oneAPU initiative is now evolving into the multi-vendor Unified Acceleration Foundation . The UXL Foundation is backed by Intel and the Linux Foundation along with other vendors like Arm, Samsung, and Qualcomm. The UXL Foundation specs will be focused on DPC++, oneDPL, oneDNN, oneCCL, Level Zero, oneDAL, oneTBB, and oneMKL. It will be very interesting to see how the UXL Foundation takes shape.
- Released yesterday was OpenVINO 2023.1 . The OpenVINO 2023.1 toolkit brings Meteor Lake VPU/NPU support, expanded Large Language Model (LLM) support, more generative AI "GenAI" features, and other improvements to this leading AI toolkit for deep learning inference.
- Over on the hardware side, Intel has re-affirmed their five-nodes-in-four-years process technology plan. They say it's on track -- including Intel 3 for end of this year. Pat Gelsinger also showed off an Intel 20A wafer at Innovation 2023.
- Intel is demonstrating the first multi-chiplet package making use of the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) interconnects.
- 5th Generation Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors will launch on 14 December.
- Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake processors will also launch on 14 December.
- Intel announced an E-core processor with 288 cores will be coming.
- The Intel Developer Cloud that was annoucned last year has now reached general availability status.
Stay tuned for more news from Intel Innovation 2023 this week.