Intel unveils world's largest fpga with 43.3 trillion transistors

Intel today unveiled the world's largest capacity FPGA, a large chiplet package with 43.3 billion transistors. The Stratix 10 GX 10M has 10.2 million logic elements and uses EMIB to sew two FPGA arrays together with four transceiver chiplets.

Intel Introduces World's Largest FPGA Stratix 10 GX 10M

In August, Xilinx made headlines in the FPGA industry with its 16nm Virtex UltraScale + VU19P as the world's highest-capacity FPGA. It was his third FPGA that used an intercom to connect four matrices. The VU19P had 9 million logic elements and 35 billion transistors. Other specs included 4.5Tb / s transceiver bandwidth and 2, 072 I / O pins.

Intel is now outperforming Xilinx with the announcement of Stratix 10 GX 10M. The 10M is made up of two large FPGA arrays and four transceiver boards. It has a total of 10.2 million logical elements and 2304 user I / O pins. This compares to the 2.75 million logical elements and 1160 I / O connections of the Stratix 10 GX 2800, Intel's largest FPGA, which means it has almost four times more logical elements and twice the I / O S for more flexibility.

Intel claims that the 10M offers a 40% reduction in power to equivalent capacity. Intel measured this using four Stratix 10 2800s at the same capacity and frequency as the 10M.

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As part of the Stratix 10 series, the new FPGA is based on Intel's 14nm process. Intel stated that the 10M contains 43.3 billion transistors. Therefore, it is the silicon with the largest number of transistors ever created. Xilinx's 7nm Versal series currently exceeds 37 billion transistors.

Intel began marketing Stratix 10 in volume in 2017, but the 10M is Intel's second new FPGA in just a few months. In September, Intel introduced the Stratix 10 DX series that brought the consistent UPI link from Intel's cache, PCIe 4.0, and Optane Persistent Memory to the series through a new chiplet.

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