Although Intel processors have been 'squeezing toothpaste' for years, they are actually limited to the consumer class. In the server and data center markets, Intel is unambiguous. It is necessary to know that in the past few years, Intel has successfully transformed itself into a Data Center Enterprise.
Now that the consumer end has started to speed up, the data center has run into big trouble, but unfortunately it has also squeezed toothpaste, and all of this has to blame the problem of its most powerful weapon. That is the process.
Intel first planned to launch the 10nm process in 2016. However, it has repeatedly postponed delays due to the inability to meet the mass production standards. It has been confirmed that it has been postponed until 2019 and is uncertain in the second half of the first half of the year.
To this end, Intel can only continue to optimize the 14nm, consumer grade has increased Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, but also to another Whisley Lake, the server is temporarily added a generation 'Casade Lake , Most of the specifications are similar to the current Skylake-SP Xeon Scalable. They are only partially enhanced. The naming estimate will continue to be divided into Platinum Platinum, Gold Gold, Silver Silver, Bronze Bronze Four series.
According to the roadmap leaked at the Intel Saudi Arabia Conference, the specifications of Cascade Lake remain unchanged: 14nm process, Socket P LGA3647 package interface, up to 28 cores and 56 threads, thermal design power consumption 70-205W, dual/quad/octal expansion Each of the three UPI buses (speed 10.4/9.6GTs), six-channel DDR4 RDIMM/LPDIMM memory, up to 12 memories per channel, up to 48 PCI-E 3.0 channels.
The difference is that the new generation will Optimize the architecture and increase the frequency.
Memory, Supports 16Gb DDR4 memory chips, so the total capacity can be doubled to 1.5TB per channel. When the frequency is set, all 12 channels can be filled up to maintain a maximum of 2666MHz, and every 6 channels can be increased to 2933MHz. , While some models support DDR-T, Apache Pass.
In addition, Cascade Lake has added FPGA options. Integrate Arria 10 in a multi-chip package, extensions.
The chipset is entirely based on the current Lewisburg C624, with no change in specifications, such as up to four 10GbE, fourteen SATA 6Gbps, fourteen USB 2.0, ten USB 3.0, twenty PCI-E 3.0...
but, The biggest advantage of Cascade Lake is that it will be redesigned in the server domain for the first time on the bottom of the hardware, immune to Meltdown blows, Spectre's two major security holes, without additional patches.
Cascade Lake is expected to be released later this year.
