Granite Rapids-D was built using telemetry from more than 90,000 edge deployments, according to Intel. It features up to 32 lanes of PCI Express 5.0, up to 16 lanes of Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0, and 2x100G Ethernet.
Among the edge-specific enhancements are extended operating temperature ranges and industrial-class reliability. Other features include new media acceleration capabilities to enhance video transcode and analytics for live OTT, VOD and broadcast media and Advanced Vector Extensions and Advanced Matrix Extensions for improved inferencing performance.
High-speed optical interconnect is at the heart of the processor
Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions Group demonstrated its newest and first-ever fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data. As part of a demo at the show, the OCI chiplet was shown to support 64 channels of 32 gigabits-per-second data transmission in each direction on up to 100 meters of fiber optics.
