Intel and SambaNova introduce a hardware system combining GPUs, RDUs, and CPUs

GPUs start the job, Xeon runs it, and RDUs finish it ...

SambaNova and Intel Announce Blueprint for Heterogeneous Inference: GPUs for Prefill, SambaNova RDUs for Decode, and Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 CPUs for Agentic Tools

The jointly engineered architecture is centered on Intel Xeon 6 processors and SambaNova RDUs. The SN50 RDU is designed to change the tokenomics of inference, delivering high--throughput, low--latency ...