Xilinx helped AMD with HBM 2

Stefan Mileschin · 15th June 2018, 13:43

High bandwidth is the key

There is an interesting story that's very little known about the public cooperation that has happened between AMD and Xilinx about HBM memory.

Our well-informed sources have confirmed that the two companies have been cooperating for years on the next generation memory interfaces. We were told that Xilinx worked closely and helped AMD with some of its HBM and HBM 2 obstacles as apparently both companies were after the same goal.

Increasing the memory bandwidth is the key for both computer graphics that AMD is perusing and for deep learning, high quality video processing and AI that both companies are now after. Stacking memory chips to increase the bandwidth was no walk in the park and both companies worked together to fix the obstacles.

Last year AMD released its HBM 2 powered Vega chips and Xilinx released HBM 2 based Virtex UltraScale+ that also uses the same memory. Back in February, Xilinx released a video of the Virtex UltraScale+ VU37P FPGA device co packaged with HBM 2. The video shows VU37P operating at full speed 460 GB/s error free over 32 channels on the first day of silicon bring up.

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/46555-x...amd-with-hbm-2

15th June 2018, 13:43	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,769	Xilinx helped AMD with HBM 2 High bandwidth is the key There is an interesting story that's very little known about the public cooperation that has happened between AMD and Xilinx about HBM memory. Our well-informed sources have confirmed that the two companies have been cooperating for years on the next generation memory interfaces. We were told that Xilinx worked closely and helped AMD with some of its HBM and HBM 2 obstacles as apparently both companies were after the same goal. Increasing the memory bandwidth is the key for both computer graphics that AMD is perusing and for deep learning, high quality video processing and AI that both companies are now after. Stacking memory chips to increase the bandwidth was no walk in the park and both companies worked together to fix the obstacles. Last year AMD released its HBM 2 powered Vega chips and Xilinx released HBM 2 based Virtex UltraScale+ that also uses the same memory. Back in February, Xilinx released a video of the Virtex UltraScale+ VU37P FPGA device co packaged with HBM 2. The video shows VU37P operating at full speed 460 GB/s error free over 32 channels on the first day of silicon bring up. https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/46555-x...amd-with-hbm-2

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