Compute

Intel Downplays Hybrid CPU-GPU Engines, Merges NNP Into GPU

When Intel announced its “Falcon Shores” project to build a hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine back in February 2022 that allowed the independent scaling of CPU and GPU capacity within a single socket, it looked like the chip maker was preparing to take on rivals Nvidia and AMD head on with hybrid compute motors, which Intel calls XPUs, AMD calls APUs, and Nvidia doesn’t really have if you want to be strict about what its “superchips” are and what they are not.