Intel shows a glimpse of its Crest Lake neural network accelerator

Over at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Intel showed off its upcoming Nervana neural network accelerator. This chip will be part of the Intel Crest Lake platform, it's aimed at deep learning and features four stacks of HBM2, resulting in a total of 32GB of memory. Most specifications are still under wraps but we do know the card has memory access speeds of 8 terabits per second. Full details at WCCF Tech.

Unfortunately, the only information we have (apart from the pictures of the complete board) is that the card will be using 2x 8 pin connectors as can be seen in the picture. Benchmark numbers and specification details are still sparse and I assume those who know are under NDA. The HBM2 stacks as well as the actual die however, are readily visible as well as the interconnect ports and the PCIe finger.