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Intel unveils multi-generation Xeon roadmap: Only new E-Core Xeons in 2024 Intel reveals multi-generation Xeon roadmap: Only new E-Core Xeons in 2024 February 18, 2022by Martin 6 It is no secret that Intel's corporate processor platform has expanded in recent generations. Compared to the competition, Intel follows its multifaceted strategy by relying on a production platform that does not offer the best in the market. Intel is reportedly quoting more shipments of its latest Xeon products in December than AMD for all of 2021, and the company will launch its next-generation Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable platform later in 2022. Except Sapphire Rapids is somewhat protected. , with minor leaks here and there, but today Intel is lifting the lid on that roadmap.
State of play today Currently on the market is Intel's Ice C Level Executive List Lake 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable platform built on Intel's 10nm node with up to 40 Sunny Cove cores. The die is large, around 660mm2, and in our benchmarks we saw a significant increase in performance compared to the 2nd generation Xeon offering. Reaction to the Ice Lake Xeon has been mixed given the competition in the market, but Intel has been leading the way by leveraging a complete platform along with its FPGA, memory, storage, networking and unique acceleration offerings. Data center revenue is up or down, depending on which quarter you look at, depending on how customers digest their current processor inventory (as CEO Pat Gelsinger stated).
That being said, Intel has put a lot of effort into discussing the 4th generation Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids platform. For example, we already know that it uses 1600 mm2 of silicon for the highest core computing solution with four tiles connected to Intel's embedded bridge technology. The chip will have eight channels of 64-bit DDR5 memory, support for PCIe 5.0, as well as most of the CXL 1.1 specifications. New matrix expansions are also built into the latest P-core designs currently available on the Alder Lake desktop platform, albeit optimized for data center use (which typically meaning support for AVX512 and larger caches) are enabled. ). We already know that Sapphire Rapids versions will be available with HBM memory, and that the first customer for those chips will be the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Labs, along with the new Ponte Vecchio high-performance computing accelerator.
State of play today Currently on the market is Intel's Ice C Level Executive List Lake 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable platform built on Intel's 10nm node with up to 40 Sunny Cove cores. The die is large, around 660mm2, and in our benchmarks we saw a significant increase in performance compared to the 2nd generation Xeon offering. Reaction to the Ice Lake Xeon has been mixed given the competition in the market, but Intel has been leading the way by leveraging a complete platform along with its FPGA, memory, storage, networking and unique acceleration offerings. Data center revenue is up or down, depending on which quarter you look at, depending on how customers digest their current processor inventory (as CEO Pat Gelsinger stated).
That being said, Intel has put a lot of effort into discussing the 4th generation Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids platform. For example, we already know that it uses 1600 mm2 of silicon for the highest core computing solution with four tiles connected to Intel's embedded bridge technology. The chip will have eight channels of 64-bit DDR5 memory, support for PCIe 5.0, as well as most of the CXL 1.1 specifications. New matrix expansions are also built into the latest P-core designs currently available on the Alder Lake desktop platform, albeit optimized for data center use (which typically meaning support for AVX512 and larger caches) are enabled. ). We already know that Sapphire Rapids versions will be available with HBM memory, and that the first customer for those chips will be the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Labs, along with the new Ponte Vecchio high-performance computing accelerator.