Intel shows huge monolithic Xe GPU on Twitter, calls it "The Father of All"
Intel has been teasing Xe-GPU on twitter. Now lets immediately kill speculation, this is about an XE-HP(C) GPU, the stuff that is found in professional servers at data-centers, etc. The chip shown is HUGE, I mean literally bigger than an EPYC processor.
That big size immediately makes is a candidate for a GPU based on multiple dies, again much like what AMD is doing with Threadripper and EPYC, it seems to be based on an LGA socket design which you can drop onto a motherboard. The photo shows a battery next to the GPU, presumably AA, so you can get a grasp of that size. On the Intel Graphics Twitter account, an update was posted on the Xe graphics processor, highlighting that samples would be ready showing a photo of a rather big GPU package, and big is like 3700 mm² big. Such a gigantic chip with a need for a server-like socket will probably be a Ponte Vecchio chip. The first server chips would be made on Intel's 7nm node.
Ex AMD's Raja Koduri, chief architect posted this in the tweets, "The first GPU with IEEE FP32 support I worked on was in 2005. 321M transistors and 32 FP32 Ops/clk. GPU compute density increases continue to be a shining point for Moore’s law. Tens of billions of transistors and tens of thousands of ops/clk.", which was later deleted saying this processor is a "baap of all", meaning "father of all", through tens of billions of transistors", when translated from Hindi.
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Well it looks like it's made of 8 chiplets to me, if you look at the back side of the package. The article calls it "monolithic" in the title, I thought that was supposed to mean that the GPU was gonna be one big piece of silicon rather than chiplets, but maybe I'm misunderstanding "monolithic" (the article then goes on to suggest chiplets too)? Most of the time monolithic has been used to describe a chip made of just one piece of silicon in my experience.
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Do they mean "ancient"?
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That or it's Temujin / Genghis Khan.

Well nice to see Intel showing AMD and NVIDIA who's the big daddy in the GPU department, possibly, guess we'll see how it goes and what their development into graphics cards can do for the current market situation.

EDIT: Or they're giving NVIDIA back for their little comics back then which painted them in a not so positive light...

(There's a fair few of these, no idea what it was about originally but it's the internet so the comics preserve forever.)
Still it'll be interesting to see what this leads to, server market, desktop or further developments on the mobile end or perhaps a bit of everything going to take a while though as usual with new processes and from planning to engineering and whenever these are actually on the market but it changes things up a bit and that can't be too bad.
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Lets call it Larrabee 2, until is proven otherwise - not dead on arrival.