[The Exiled]

Intel’s 2021 Exascale Vision in Aurora: Two Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Six Ponte Vecchio GPUs

Despite initially being a ‘deliver by 2020’ project, Intel is now saying that Aurora will be delivered in 2021.

This means that Intel has to execute on the following:

• Manufacturing at 10++ in sufficient yield with respect to cores/frequencies
• Manufacturing at 7nm for chiplets, both in yield and frequencies
• Transition through DDR3 to DDR4 (and DDR5?) in that time frame
• Transition through PCIe 3.0 to PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 in that time frame
• Release and detail its 2nd generation Optane DC Persistent Memory
• Provide an SDK to deal with all of the above
• Teach researchers to use it

Ultimately, based on what we know so far, Intel still has a lot of work to do to deliver this by 2021. At any rate, some of these technologies might not get in the hands of the rest of us until 2022.

Izvor: AnandTech