Recently, at the 2023 Intel New Product Launch and AI Technology Innovation Party, with the theme of "AI is ubiquitous and chips are everywhere", Intel officially launched the fifth generation Intel Xeon scalable processor.
It is understood that in recent years, Intel has always built a secure, efficient, and widely available computing foundation for cloud and artificial intelligence with a rich product line and an open and diverse ecosystem. The launch of the fifth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor aims to provide "core power" for more efficient stimulation of digital infrastructure such as data centers and cloud resources, supporting the improvement of new productivity such as computing and intelligent computing, and the development and application of data resource elements with stronger computing power, faster memory, and higher performance per watt.
The fifth generation Intel Xeon can effectively help innovate new infrastructure, with an average performance improvement of up to 21% compared to the previous generation products, a memory bandwidth increase of up to 16%, a nearly 3-fold increase in tertiary cache capacity, built-in numerous accelerators, new I/O technology, and optimization for most workloads in the market such as cloud, data analysis, storage, network, and IoT through up to 64 kernel configurations, To comprehensively improve energy efficiency and help new infrastructure such as data centers and cloud platforms build higher computing power.
Meanwhile, based on Intel Advanced Matrix Extension, a built-in accelerator, the fifth generation Xeon can further improve deep learning training and inference performance. It can achieve performance similar to using an independent accelerator without increasing hardware and system complexity, allowing for tasks such as tuning deep learning models or training small models to be completed in just a few minutes. In addition, based on trusted execution environments, the fifth generation Xeon can not only help protect data and artificial intelligence models, but also support users to make diverse choices from widely deployed data center confidential computing solutions in the current market (including application or virtual machine level isolation), making it more convenient to find solutions that are suitable for their specific business and regulatory needs. Meanwhile, through the confidential computing ecosystem, even sensitive or regulated data can be utilized across local, edge, and cloud servers, helping users achieve compliant business operations and better achieve business model innovation and data sharing.
Intel has partnered with its cloud computing industry partners to launch unique solutions and product solutions, achieving further upgrades in cloud computing power and helping industry users accelerate their digital transformation. For example, JD Cloud has launched a new generation of servers, which have improved overall performance by 23% compared to the previous generation, and have also achieved significant benefits in artificial intelligence and large models; Alibaba Cloud adopts the fifth generation Xeon to further upgrade the computing power of the eighth generation instance G8i, resulting in a 25% improvement in both inference and database performance; The third generation elastic computing instance of Volcano Engine is upgraded based on the fifth generation Xeon, with a 39% increase in overall computing power and a 43% improvement in application performance compared to before the upgrade.
Chen Baoli, Vice President and General Manager of Intel Data Center and Artificial Intelligence Group in China, stated that AI is changing people's lifestyles, accelerating industrial transformation, and also placing new demands on computing power. The fifth generation Intel Xeon scalable processor aims to build a more secure, efficient, and widely available computing foundation for new infrastructure construction. By providing acceleration and enhancement functions for various modern workloads, it achieves intergenerational improvement and fully empowers AI applications; At the same time, through Intel's extensive ecological cooperation, we help users quickly deploy AI, provide stronger support for the comprehensive acceleration of China's information infrastructure construction, and make new contributions to promoting high-quality development.