Intel® Accelerator Engines
Transform your data center workload solutions with Intel® Accelerator Engines on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Accelerate Performance Across the Fastest-Growing Workload Types in AI, Data Analytics, Networking, Storage, and HPC1
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors feature the broadest and widest set of built-in accelerator engines for today’s most demanding workloads. Whether on-prem, in the cloud or at the edge, Intel® Accelerator Engines can help take your business to new heights, increasing application performance, reducing costs, and improving power efficiency.
Read more about how to improve performance with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processers featuring Intel® Accelerator Engines.
AI
Intel® AI Engines boost inference and training without additional hardware.
Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) significantly accelerates deep learning training and inference, ideal for workloads like natural language processing, recommendation systems and image recognition.
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) can accelerate classical machine learning and other workloads in the end-to-end AI workflow, such as data prep.
HPC
Conquer the most demanding computational tasks with Intel® HPC Engines.
Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) dramatically improves deep learning to accelerate HPC/AI workloads like risk and fraud detection, genomic sequencing, climate science and more.
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) accelerates performance for compute-intensive HPC workloads, including financial analytics, 3D modeling and scientific simulations.
Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA) helps speed up data movement across the CPU, memory and caches, as well as all attached memory, storage and network devices.
Security
Maintain performance while helping preserve data confidentiality and code integrity with Intel® Security Engines.
Intel® Crypto Acceleration reduces the impact of implementing pervasive data encryption and increases the performance of encryption-sensitive workloads.
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) is designed to enhance data protection at rest, in motion, and in use. Intel SGX is the most researched, updated, and deployed confidential computing technology in data centers on the market today.
Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) is a new capability available through select cloud providers in 2023 that offers increased confidentiality at the virtual machine (VM) level, enhancing privacy and control over your data.
Network
Accelerated performance for high-density solutions with Intel® Network Engines.
Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel® DLB) enables the efficient distribution of network processing across multiple CPU cores.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) can deliver significant workload acceleration for encryption, decryption, and compression to help reduce system resources consumption.
Intel® vRAN Boost eliminates the need for an external accelerator card reduces overall vRAN solution complexity and provides power savings for customers.
Analytics
Accelerate business decisions through bare-metal or VMs with Intel® Analytics Engines.
Intel® In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (Intel® IAA) helps run database and analytics workloads faster, ideal for in-memory databases, open-source databases and data stores.
Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA) drives high performance for storage, networking, and data-intensive workloads by improving streaming data movement and transformation operations.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) accelerates data compression/decompression for faster database backups while offloading from CPU cores for more efficient performance.
Storage
Develop more effective data storage practices through Intel® Storage Engines.
Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA) speeds up I/O operations per second and reduces latency, accelerating data movement across the CPU, memory and caches and attached memory and storage devices.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) increases the performance of storage applications by accelerating data compression/decompression and cryptography.
Product and Performance Information
Availability of accelerators varies depending on SKU. Visit the Intel Product Specifications page for additional product details.