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Lake Crest - Microarchitectures - Intel Nervana
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| Lake Crest µarch | |
| General Info | |
| Arch Type | NPU |
| Designer | Nervana |
| Manufacturer | TSMC |
| Introduction | November 17, 2016 |
| Process | 28 nm |
| Succession | |
Lake Crest is a neural processor microarchitecture designed by Nervana.
Process Technology
Lake Crest is fabricated on TSMC's 28 nm process.
Architecture
Lake Crest was designed from the ground up for deep learning. The architecture itself is a tensor-based architecture, meaning it's optimized for blocks of compute instead of operating on scalars (as would a traditional Intel CPU would).
- Tensor-based architecture
- Nervana Engine
- Flexpoint number format
- No caches
- Software explicitly manages all on-chip memory
- HBM2 memory
- 32 GiB of in-package memory
- 8 Tbit/s bandwidth
- 12 bi-directional high-bandwidth direct chip-to-chip interconnect
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Block Diagram
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Memory Hierarchy
- 32 GiB on-package HBM2
- 1 TiB/s
Facts about "Lake Crest - Microarchitectures - Intel Nervana"
| codename | Lake Crest + |
| designer | Nervana + |
| first launched | November 17, 2016 + |
| full page name | nervana/microarchitectures/lake crest + |
| instance of | microarchitecture + |
| manufacturer | TSMC + |
| name | Lake Crest + |
| process | 28 nm (0.028 μm, 2.8e-5 mm) + |