The NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core, which was recently unveiled, will not be available until the third quarter of this year, giving competitors time to change their product launch schedules or prepare for their successors.

A new codename for Intel’s Ponte Vecchio successor has been revealed on the Moore’s Law is Dead YouTube channel. Rialto Bridge, a GPU codenamed, is rumoured to be launching next year. As a result, it looks that Intel will continue to name their GPUs after legendary Italian bridges.

This information corresponds to that provided by another trustworthy leaker, “KOMACHI ENSAKA,” who tweeted in July:

Even before AMD’s MI250X and NVIDIA’s H100, Intel Ponte Vecchio was the first HPC GPU to be introduced from this generation. Despite this, Intel has yet to reveal all of the product’s specifications or a precise debut date. It will now be released later this year.

This Xe-HPC-based GPU has 100B transistors and two 640mm2 compute dies, which are smaller than the Aldebaran and GH100 compute dies. Unlike Hopper GPU, Ponte Vecchio is made up of 47 separate tiles, each of which is made up of different process technologies from Intel or external foundries. The complexity of this design does not help speed up the packing process.

We now have codenames for all planned 2022-2024 HPC GPUs based on this new rumour:

1. NVIDIA B100 (Blackwell) 2. AMD Instinct MI300 (CDNA3) 3. Intel Rialto Bridge (Xe-HPC2?)

Those HPC GPUs are expected to be available within the next two years. Intel has not officially said that a successor to the Xe-HPC architecture is in the works.