FMS: BittWare/Molex PCIe 5.0/CXL FPGA Accelerators Featuring Intel Agilex M-Series

Summary:

• BittWare joins Intel Agilex M-Series Early Access Program to jumpstart development of FPGA solutions for memory-intensive applications
• Company creates broadest portfolio of enterprise-class Intel FPGA-based accelerators with addition of 2 new Intel Agilex I-Series SmartNIC accelerators 
• Decades-long collaboration with Intel provides customers with access to products for high-performance compute, computational storage, network and sensor processing

BittWare, a Molex LLC company introduced card and server-level solutions featuring Intel Agilex FPGAs.

The company’s IA-860m helps customers alleviate memory-bound application workloads by leveraging up to 32GB of HBM2e in-package memory and 16-lanes of PCIe 5.0 (with CXL upgrade option).

IA-860m specs

The firm’s PCIe 5.0/CXL FPGA Accelerators feature Intel Agilex M-Series and I-Series to drive memory and interconnectivity improvements while reducing risk

The company also added Intel Agilex I-Series FPGA-based products with the introduction of the IA-440i and IA-640i accelerators, which support performance interfaces, including 400GbE and PCIe 5.0 (CXL option). These models complement the firm’s existing lineup of Intel Agilex F-Series products to comprise a broad portfolio of Intel Agilex FPGA-based offerings. This announcement reinforces the company’s commitment to addressing increasing demands of performance compute, storage, network and sensor processing applications.

IA 440i And IA 640i accelerators

IA 440i IA 440i specsIA 640i

IA 640i specs

“BittWare is excited to apply Intel’s advanced technology to solve increasingly difficult application problems, quickly and at low risk,” said Craig Petrie, VP, sales and marketing, BittWare. “Our longstanding collaboration with Intel, expertise with the latest development tools, including OneAPI, as well as alignment with Molex’s global supply chain and manufacturing capabilities enable BittWare to reduce development time by 12-to-18 months while ensuring smooth transitions from proof-of-concept to volume product deployment.”

Jumpstarting innovation
The company has been selected to participate in Intel’s Agilex M-Series Early Access Program (EAP) to expedite the delivery of FPGA-based solutions featuring Intel’s latest technology advancements. To that end, the firm’s engineering team will take advantage of in-package HBM2e (High-Bandwidth Memory) DRAM stacks; on-chip SRAM; and support for external SDRAM next-generation memory, including DDR5.

“We are pleased to team with BittWare to scale Intel FPGA-based solutions while fueling momentum for our new Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs,” said Deepali Trehan, VP and GM, programmable solutions, Intel Corporation. “Over the years, BittWare has been pivotal in supporting our flagship Intel Agilex product roadmap as well as leveraging Intel’s OneAPI development toolkit to speed the development and delivery of solutions that empower our customers to achieve the high levels of performance and power efficiency across end-markets and applications.”

Addressing exponential data growth
The company and Intel together are developing solutions to speed the processing of various workloads, ranging from machine learning inference, database acceleration and NVMe computational storage to networking test and measurement, 5G cellular testing and sensor processing. As a result, both organizations are poised to enable customers to keep pace with ever-increasing demands for high-speed networking, computing and storage acceleration for the most demanding applications and computational workloads.

Availability:

• Early access units of the firm’s IA-440i and IA-640i accelerators are slated for availability in 4Q22 with production units targeted for delivery in 1Q23.

• Early access units of the IA-860m accelerators are scheduled for 2Q23 with production units expected by 2Q24.

• All 3 products will be available through distribution.