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On November 14, Intel FPGA China Technology Day 2023 with the theme of "accelerating Innovation, shaping the Future of FPGA Core" was held in Beijing. During this period, Intel not only disclosed the details and early verification plans of a number of FPGA products, including Agilex 3 series and Agilex 5 series, but also shared many applications with industrial partners in key areas such as data center, AI, network, embedded, and so on, aiming to further meet the needs of a wide range of market segments with a gradually expanded product portfolio. In-depth demonstration of Intel's important role in accelerating programmable innovation and promoting the process of digital intelligence in China's industry.

"driven by the massive growth of new scenarios and new applications, the demand for FPGA products in China's local market is also increasingly diversified and rapidly expanding," said Ye Weichen, general manager of Intel Programmable Solutions Division in China. We are always committed to providing full-scene solutions for thousands of industries based on the actual needs of Chinese customers and based on leading FPGA products and software. "

With the surge of data and computing demand, there is an urgent need for innovative chips with both high performance and low power consumption to meet the stringent workload needs. In response, Intel launched a strong Agilex FPGA portfolio to help developers quickly build cloud-to-edge solutions in complex design environments, while meeting the needs of programmable logic at all levels with flexible, customized platform features and strong scalability. Recently, Intel disclosed its latest FPGA product roadmap.

At present, Intel Agilex FPGA series products include Agilex 3, 5, 7 and other series products, among which Intel Agilex 3 FPGA series is compact, greatly optimized in power consumption and cost, and has extensive IO support. The upcoming Agilex 3 B-Series FPGA is targeted at board and system management, including server platform management (PFM) applications, while the C-Series FPGA provides more functionality for a range of complex programmable logic devices (CPLD) and FPGA applications for vertical market applications.

The Intel Agilex 5 FPGA series uses a second-generation Intel Hyperfle FPGA architecture and Intel 7-process process to optimize transistor performance per watt for excellent energy consumption. At the same time, it adopts the industry's first AI-optimized module embedded in Intel's previous generation of high-end products, and extends it to the mid-range products of Agilex 5 FPGA, providing an ideal choice for edge AI applications. Among them, the Agilex 5e series FPGA has been optimized in terms of power consumption and size, and will gradually provide samples to early experience customers from the fourth quarter, and begin to deliver engineering samples and related design software in large quantities in the first quarter of next year.

The Intel Agilex 7 FPGA series uses CXL to improve bandwidth and connection performance, and uses HBM to accelerate memory access. The Agilex 7 M, F and I series FPGA with performance and power consumption advantages are now available. Among them, compared with other similar FPGA products, Agilex 7 FPGA R-Tile has increased the PCIe5.0 bandwidth speed of each port by 2 times and CXL bandwidth by 4 times, and has been shipped in large quantities.

In addition to a comprehensive FPGA portfolio, Intel also builds structured ASIC solutions. Compared with FPGA,ASIC, it takes a long time to develop and can meet the requirements of lower power consumption and unit cost. Intel's custom logic combination of FPGA, structured ASIC and ASIC is designed to support the diversified needs of the market for different power consumption, cost, and time to market with high flexibility.

At the same time, in order to enhance the portability of versions and facilities, simplify the FPGA development process and improve ease of use, Intel continues to invest in software and IP function development, providing supporting software stacks such as Intel Quartus Prime, Open FPGA Stack (OFS) open source version, and Intel FPGA AI suite, which are specially built for the full range of FPGA. Currently, thanks to the latest release of the open source version of OFS, developers have free access to open source hardware code, software code, and technical documentation for platform and workload development.

In the face of the rapid growth of AI application scenarios in the cloud, network, edge and other areas, as well as the increasing demand for diversified products in the market, Intel is also committed to providing FPGA-based AI scalability from edge to cloud with full stack FPGA products to flexibly run a variety of workloads, and fully release the potential of AI to meet current and future challenges with lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

In the future, Intel will continue to join hands with more Chinese industrial ecological partners to respond flexibly to market challenges with excellent software and hardware product mix, excellent developer experience, and industry-leading supply chain, so as to further promote FPGA technological innovation and achievements, and accelerate the development of industrial intelligence.

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