Intel Unveils Rialto Bridge: Second-Gen Xe-HPC Accelerator to Succeed Ponte Vecchio

With ISC High Performance 2022 taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany, Intel is using the first in-person version of the event in 3 years to offer an update to the state of their high performance/supercomputer silicon plans. The big news out of the show this year is that Intel is naming the successor to the Ponte Vecchio accelerator, which the company is now disclosing as Rialto Bridge.

Previously appearing on Intel's roadmaps as Ponte Vecchio Next", Intel's GPU teams have been pipelining the development of Ponte's successor even as the first large installation of Ponte itself (the Aurora Supercomputer) is still being stood up. As part of the company's 3 year (ish) roadmap that leads to CPUs and accelerators converging with the Falcon Shores XPU, Rialto Bridge is the part that will, if you'll pardon the pun, bridge the gap between Ponte and Falcon, offering an evolution of Ponte's design that's making use of newer technologies and manufacturing processes.