Invest 400million euros! Intel and Spanish Supercomputing Center develop risc-v processor, which will be used for 100 billion times of supercomputing

6 month 2 Daily news , Recently, Intel and Barcelona Supercomputing Center of Spain jointly announced , Will invest 4 Billions of euros （ renminbi 28.5 One hundred million yuan ） Establishment of Joint Laboratory , Plan in 10 Developed during the year based on RISC-V Architecturally zettascale（ A trillion times ） Scale level supercomputing processors , Compared with the present exascal（ Ten billion times ） The level of supercomputing has been increased 1000 times .

It is worth mentioning that , In recent days, , be based on AMD EPYC Xiaolong processor 、Instinct The acceleration card has created the world's first 10 billion yuan （exascale） Sub supercomputing “Frontier” Successfully reached the top of the latest global supercomputing TOP500 Top of the list .

Although Intel is also actively promoting the code based on Sapphire Rapids Intel Xeon processor and code named Ponte Vecchio The performance of Intel data center graphics card is up to 2 Ten billion times of Aurora （Aurora） The introduction of supercomputers , But at the same time, Intel also began to increase its weight in RISC-V CPU Investment on .

At the beginning of the year , Intel also announced that it has joined the global open hardware standards organization RISC-V International（RISC-V The foundation ）, And became the highest level （Premier） Members of . meanwhile , Intel IFS Vice president of customer solutions Engineering Bob Brennan Will join RISC-V Board of directors and Technical Steering Committee .

And before that , Intel OEM services also works with SiFive Co developed the code named “Horse Creek” Of RISC-V Development platform , The platform uses multi-core SiFive Performance P550 processor , And in Intel 4 Implement on the technology platform , Plan in 2022 Launched in 2013 .

Although intel was RISC-V It seems that all the investment on the OEM is helping the development of its OEM business , But from its latest cooperation with the Spanish Supercomputing Center , Intel for RISC-V To further enhance the importance of , And plans to launch a self-developed RISC-V The high performance of the architecture CPU, To meet the needs of the market .

edit ： Smart core - Woods