{"id":53367,"date":"2019-12-10T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=53367"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:01:05","slug":"centaur-releases-in-depth-analysis-from-the-linley-group-for-worlds-first-x86-processor-with-ai-coprocessor-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/53367-centaur-releases-in-depth-analysis-from-the-linley-group-for-worlds-first-x86-processor-with-ai-coprocessor-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Centaur Releases In-Depth Analysis from The Linley Group for World\u2019s First x86 Processor with AI<\/span> Coprocessor Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detail\u00aded Tech\u00adni\u00adcal Dis\u00adclo\u00adsure Fol\u00adlows Suc\u00adcessful Demons\u00adtra\u00adti\u00adon at ISC<\/span> East\u00adTra\u00adde Show<\/em><\/p>\n

Aus\u00adtin, Texas \u2013Decem\u00adber 9, 2019 \u2013 Cen\u00adtaur Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy today reve\u00ada\u00adled in-depth infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon abou\u00adtits new pro\u00adces\u00adsor-design tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy for inte\u00adgra\u00adting high-per\u00adfor\u00admance x86 CPUs with a spe\u00adcia\u00adli\u00adzed copro\u00adces\u00adsor opti\u00admi\u00adzed for arti\u00adfi\u00adci\u00adal intel\u00adli\u00adgence (AI<\/span>) acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon. On its website(www.centtech.com), Cen\u00adtaur pro\u00advi\u00addes a new inde\u00adpen\u00addent\u00adre\u00adport\u00adfrom\u00adThe Lin\u00adley Group, the industry\u2019s lea\u00adding aut\u00adho\u00adri\u00adty on micro\u00adpro\u00adces\u00adsor tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy and publishers of Micro\u00adpro\u00adces\u00adsor Report.The Lin\u00adley Group review\u00aded Centaur\u2019s detail\u00aded design docu\u00adments andinterviewedCentaur\u2019s CPU<\/span> and AI<\/span> archi\u00adtect\u00adsto\u00adsup\u00adport the ana\u00adly\u00adsis of both Centaur\u2019s newest x86 micro\u00adar\u00adchi\u00adtec\u00adtu\u00adre and the AI<\/span> coprocessordesign.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Cen\u00adtaur is gal\u00adlo\u00adping back into the x86 mar\u00adket with an inno\u00adva\u00adti\u00adve pro\u00adces\u00adsor design that\u00adcom\u00adbi\u00adnes eight high-per\u00adfor\u00admance CPUs with a cus\u00adtom deep-lear\u00adning acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor (DLA<\/span>). The\u00adcom\u00adpa\u00adny is the first to announ\u00adce a ser\u00adver-pro\u00adces\u00adsor design that inte\u00adgra\u00adtes a DLA<\/span>. The new\u00adac\u00adce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor, cal\u00adled Nco\u00adre, deli\u00advers bet\u00adter neu\u00adral-net\u00adwork per\u00adfor\u00admance than even the most\u00adpowerful Xeon, but wit\u00adhout the high cost of an exter\u00adnal GPU<\/span> card,\u201d sta\u00adted\u00adLin\u00adley Gwen\u00adnap, Edi\u00adtor-in-Chief, Micro\u00adpro\u00adces\u00adsor Report.<\/p>\n

The Lin\u00adley Group refe\u00adren\u00adced cer\u00adti\u00adfied MLPerf1benchmark (Pre\u00adview) scores\u00adto compa\u00adre Centaur\u2019s AI<\/span> per\u00adfor\u00admance to high-end x86 CPU\u00adco\u00adre\u00ads\u00adfrom theleadingx86 ven\u00addor. Based on MLPerfs\u00adcores, Centaur\u2019s AI-copro\u00adces\u00adsor\u00adin\u00adfe\u00adrence per\u00adfor\u00admance\u00adis\u00adcom\u00adpa\u00adra\u00adble to 23of Intel\u2019s world-class x86 cores that now sup\u00adport\u00ad512-bit vec\u00adtor neu\u00adral net\u00adwork ins\u00adtruc\u00adtions (VNNI<\/span>)2.Centaur\u2019s AI<\/span> copro\u00adces\u00adsor uses an archi\u00adtec\u00adtu\u00adral\u00adly\u00adsi\u00admi\u00adlar sin\u00adgle-ins\u00adtruc\u00adtion-mul\u00adti\u00adple-data (SIMD<\/span>) approach\u00adas VNNI<\/span>, but crun\u00adches 32,768bitsin a sin\u00adgle clock cycleu\u00adsing a 16MB<\/span> memo\u00adry with 20 terabytes\/sec of band\u00adwidth. Moreo\u00adver, by off\u00adloa\u00adding infe\u00adrence pro\u00adces\u00adsing to a spe\u00adcia\u00adli\u00adzed copro\u00adces\u00adsor, the x86 CPU<\/span> cores remain available for other, more gene\u00adral-pur\u00adpo\u00adse tasks. Appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon deve\u00adlo\u00adpers can inno\u00adva\u00adte new algo\u00adrith\u00adms that take advan\u00adta\u00adge of the unpar\u00adal\u00adle\u00adled infe\u00adrence laten\u00adcy enab\u00adled by Centaur\u2019s AI<\/span> per\u00adfor\u00admance and tight inte\u00adgra\u00adti\u00adon with x86 CPUs.<\/p>\n

Atten\u00adde\u00ades at the ISC<\/span> East trade show in NYC\u00adsaw Centaur\u2019s new tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy up clo\u00adse\u00adfor the first time. The demo\u00adshow\u00adca\u00adsedvi\u00addeo ana\u00adly\u00adtic\u00adsu\u00ads\u00ading Centaur\u2019s refe\u00adrence sys\u00adtem\u00adwi\u00adthx86-based\u00adnet\u00adwork-video-recor\u00adding (NVR<\/span>) soft\u00adware from Qvis Labs. In addi\u00adti\u00adon to conventional,real-time object detection\/classification, Cen\u00adtaur\u00adwas the only ven\u00addor at the show tohigh\u00adlight lea\u00adding-edge appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons\u00adsuch as seman\u00adtic seg\u00admen\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon (pixel-level image clas\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon) and a new tech\u00adni\u00adque for human pose estimation(\u201cstickfigures\u201d).Centaurisfocusedon impro\u00adving the hard\u00adware price\/performance and soft\u00adware pro\u00adduc\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty for plat\u00adforms to sup\u00adport this next wave ofre\u00adse\u00adarch appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons and\u00adspeed deploy\u00adment into new ser\u00adver-class products.About Cen\u00adtaur Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy Aus\u00adtin, Texas-based Cen\u00adtaur Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy is a small group of very talen\u00adted engi\u00adneers that have been desig\u00adning AI<\/span> acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy for high-per\u00adfor\u00admance, low-cost x86-com\u00adpa\u00adti\u00adble micro\u00adpro\u00adces\u00adsors. Over the past 24 years, Cen\u00adtaur Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy has ship\u00adped 26 dif\u00adfe\u00adrent x86-based designs with mil\u00adli\u00adons of units sold. More infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon is at www.centtech.com.<\/p>\n

[1] MLPerf v0.5 Infe\u00adrence Closed\/Preview audi\u00adted sub\u00admis\u00adsi\u00adon, Sept. 2019. MLPerf name and logo are trade\u00admarks. See www.mlperf.org for more information.<\/p>\n

[2] MLPerf Inf\u20110.5\u201323. Dual Intel\u00ae Xeon\u00ae Pla\u00adti\u00adnum 9282 (112 total cores).MobileNet-V1 and Res\u00adNet-50 on Intel x86coreswith VNNI<\/span>. Intel and Xeon are trade\u00admarks of Intel Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cen\u00adtaur Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy today reve\u00ada\u00adled in-depth infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon abou\u00adtits new pro\u00adces\u00adsor-design tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy for inte\u00adgra\u00adting high-per\u00adfor\u00admance x86 CPUs with a spe\u00adcia\u00adli\u00adzed copro\u00adces\u00adsor opti\u00admi\u00adzed for arti\u00adfi\u00adci\u00adal intel\u00adli\u00adgence (AI<\/span>) acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon. On its website(www.centtech.com), Cen\u00adtaur pro\u00advi\u00addes a new inde\u00adpen\u00addent\u00adre\u00adport\u00adfrom\u00adThe Lin\u00adley Group, the industry\u2019s lea\u00adding aut\u00adho\u00adri\u00adty on micro\u00adpro\u00adces\u00adsor tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy and publishers of Micro\u00adpro\u00adces\u00adsor Report.The Lin\u00adley Group review\u00aded Centaur\u2019s detail\u00aded design docu\u00adments andinterviewedCentaur\u2019s CPU<\/span> and AI<\/span> archi\u00adtect\u00adsto\u00adsup\u00adport the ana\u00adly\u00adsis of both Centaur\u2019s newest x86 micro\u00adar\u00adchi\u00adtec\u00adtu\u00adre and the AI<\/span> copro\u00adces\u00adsor\u00adde\u00adsign. (\u2026) Wei\u00adter\u00adle\u00adsen \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2164,2163],"class_list":["post-53367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","tag-ai","tag-centaur","entry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53368,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53367\/revisions\/53368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}