Hygon Reveals 512-Thread CPU and AI GPU to Rival Intel Xeon and Nvidia
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- Hygon announced a new lineup of hardware for data center and AI markets, including a high-core-count CPU, dedicated AI accelerator, and networking infrastructure, aiming to boost China's tech independence.
- The C86-5G CPU family features up to 128 cores and 512 threads, with SMT4, over 15% IPC improvement, AVX512 support, and native AI acceleration for INT8/BF16, already in mass production.
- The Deep Computing Unit (DCU) GPU accelerator targets AI training and HPC, supporting FP64/FP16/BF16 with HBM, competing with NVIDIA's A100.
- Hygon developed four infrastructure chips: a 104-lane PCIe 5.0 switch, a Scale-Up Interconnect Switch like NVLink, and ScaleFabric networking with 400 Gb/s speeds and 800 Gb/s switches.