Intel abandons XPU plan to cram CPU, GPU, and memory into one package
Intel's grand plan to stitch CPU, GPU, and memory dies together on a single package called an XPU is dead in the water.
"My prior push to integrate a CPU and GPU into an XPU was premature," he said, making the case the market had changed so much in the year since it detailed Falcon Shores that it no longer made sense to proceed. According to McVeigh, today's AI and HPC workloads are too dynamic for integration to make sense."When the workloads are fixed, when you have really good clarity that they're not going to be changing dramatically, integration is great," he added.was supposed to be an advantage as Intel planned to offer it in multiple SKUs with more or less CPU or GPU resources, depending on the use case.
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