Altera launches Agilex 7 FPGA M-series with integrated high bandwidth memory for AI and Data-intensive applications

Altera announced the production shipments of its Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series, the industry's first high-end, high-density FPGA featuring integrated high bandwidth memory and support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory technologies. Offering over 3.8 million logic elements, the Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series is optimized for applications demanding the highest performance and memory bandwidth, including AI, data centers, next-generation firewalls, 5G communications infrastructure, and 8K broadcast equipment.

As data traffic continues to increase exponentially due to the growth of AI, cloud computing, and video streaming services, the demand for higher memory bandwidth, increased capacity, and improved power efficiency has never been greater. The Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series addresses these challenges by offering users high logic densities, a high-performance fabric, and a memory interface that accelerates data throughput speeds while reducing memory bottlenecks and latency.

The Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series features a hardened memory Network-on-Chip (NoC) interface that delivers the industry’s highest memory bandwidth, up to 1 TBps, using in-package HBM2E and hardened DDR5/LPDDR5 memory controllers. The second-generation Hyperflex architecture provides over 2X higher fabric performance-per-watt compared to competing 7nm FPGAs.

Advanced Transceiver Capabilities: Hardened Intellectual Property (IP) for PCIe 5.0, Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0, and 400G Ethernet, with transceivers operating up to 116 Gbps, the highest of any FPGA provider in the industry

Use Cases :

Data Centers: Provides high memory bandwidth and a high-performance FPGA fabric for faster processing and more power-efficient data handling of generative AI models.

Networking: Delivers high-performance data paths, deep memory buffers, and high-bandwidth connectivity for next-generation firewall applications.

Broadcast Equipment: Supports the transfer of massive amounts of data between the image sensor pipeline and the FPGA for next-generation 8K ultra high-definition video.

Test and Measurement Equipment: Enables the development of next-generation 800 GbE test equipment by supporting the advancement of Gigabit Ethernet technologies.

Thomas Sohmers, CTO & Founder of Positron, stated: "Agilex 7 M-Series enables Positron to utilize a memory-optimized architecture, achieving over 93% bandwidth utilization—far surpassing the typical 10-30% seen in GPU-based systems. This advancement allows us to deliver 3.5 times better performance per dollar and 3.5 times greater power efficiency compared to leading GPUs when running LLM inference workloads such as the Llama3 family and MOE-based reasoning models."

Deepali Trehan, Head of Product Management and Marketing at Altera, commented: "The Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series represents a significant leap forward in FPGA technology. By combining HBM memory, DDR5, LPDDR5, and a high-density FPGA fabric"

For more information, visit www.altera.com.

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