alt Hacker NewsSo, they're selling this as an AI accelerator, with drop in compatibility with existing boards, and no boost to RAM bandwidth.
As I understand things, it would be extremely unusual to ship a chip that was bound by floating point throughput, not uncached memory access, especially in the desktop/laptop space.
I haven't been following the Intel server space too carefully, so it's an honest question: Was the old thing compute and not bandwidth limited, or is this going to be running inference at the same throughput (though maybe with lower power consumption)?
No, they're not selling this as an "AI accelerator":
Here is the quote:
"The company says operators deploying 5G Advanced and future 6G networks increasingly rely on server CPUs for virtualized RAN and edge AI inference, as they do not want to re-architect their data centers in a bid to accommodate AI accelerators."
Edge AI usually means very small models that run fine on CPUs.