Intel Stratix 10 FPGA processor reaches 10 TFLOPs of power

Intel Stratix 10 FPGA is a processor that specializes in floating point operations and contains 30 billion transistors inside, a figure that is three times that of the company’s most powerful conventional processors.

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Intel Stratix 10 FPGA is the world’s most powerful processor

These features make the Intel Stratix 10 FPGA achieve performance of 10 TFLOPs, in other words, it is capable of doing 10 trillion decimal calculations per second, between 10 and 100 times more than any consumer processor. The Intel Stratix 10 FPGA can process data equivalent to 420 Blu-ray Discs in just one second, says the Intel blog.

The peculiarity of the FPGA (field programmable gate arrays) processors is that they are remotely programmable, which makes them a very powerful tool when it comes to performing specific tasks. Therefore, this type of processor is widely used in sectors related to artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, next-generation wireless networks and many more sectors where high power is needed for specific tasks.

Intel began displaying its 14nm Stratix 10 FPGAs with ARM cores and HBM2 memory in October 2016. At the IDF event that year, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich described the Stratix 10 like a beast. Intel manufactures several variants of these FPGAs to meet the needs of various customers.