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Another month is the 2018 Taipei Computer Show. Last year, Intel released a new Core i9 brand and 18-core processors in Taipei. Later, it brought 6 cores and 12 threads to the mainstream desktop market. It lasted for 10 years. For a long time, the desktop quad-core era was finally put to an end, and at this year's Taipei Computer Show, Intel is likely to bring an 8-core, 16-thread nine-generation Core.
In the future, blindly raising the number of CPU cores is not the only way. We hope to see Intel's new processor architecture. The good news is that Intel is really developing a new CP core architecture. It is expected that it will replace 2006. With the Core architecture, it becomes the CPU core foundation for the next 10 years.
Recently, a recruitment notice from Intel attracted attention. Intel stated that they are looking for advanced CPU microarchitects and designers. The main work is to develop a revolutionary microprocessor core. Recruiters will join Intel’s Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. Ocean Cove team.
What is Intel's revolutionary CPU architecture? It's not yet known, but this is not the first time that a new generation of CPU microkernel has been exposed. At the beginning of last year, Intel's recruitment notice mentioned similar information. It is a CPU pre-production verification engineer. Its work content is to develop a new generation of CPU cores. The code name was NGC, and this new CPU core will be used in the next 10 years of computing market.
The two recruitment messages are probably the same thing. It can be determined that Intel has been developing new and revolutionary CPU cores in the past two years. This is because the existing seven generations, the eight generations of Core Duo, etc. Although the CPUs use different architectures each year, the architecture of the entire CPU architecture is still determined by the Core microarchitecture in 2006. The CPU architectures after that are all improved on this architecture.
Before the Core Intel CPU architecture is called P6, Pentium processor is brilliant when the P6 architecture. Similarly, AMD there is also a similar situation, earlier K7, K8, K10 architecture, after the bulldozer is considered a major structural change, but The results all see that this generation of architecture is not successful, so with the Zen architecture, the Zen architecture will also spawn Zen+, Zen 2, Zen 3, and Zen 5 multi-generation CPU processors. 10 years.
Since 2006, Intel's Core architecture has been 12 years old. It is still excellent, but it is not enough to support the needs of the next 10 years. Intel's revolutionary CPU architecture is understandable. The key figures in the semiconductor field have joined Intel, especially the former AMD chief architect Jim Keller.
According to the latest report, Jim Keller's main goal for Intel is to develop high-performance server CPUs. However, server CPUs and desktop CPUs are not structurally differentiated. Desktop CPUs can also use high-performance CPU architectures. Therefore, the work of Jim Keller works. The future will also benefit desktop X86 processors.
The only problem is that time, Intel's revolutionary CPU architecture will not soon be used in reality. Due to difficult production in the 10nm process, Intel will still use 14nm++ technology this year, and the 10nm node has also been identified with Cannonlake, Tiger Lakes and so on, this revolutionary CPU architecture may use the future 7nm process, which happens to be the next generation of high-performance CPU technology, but Intel's production time may be pushed beyond 2020.
