Emerging workloads would require significantly increased efficiency, and with a purpose to remedy upcoming challenges Intel has adjusted its product roadmaps fairly considerably. One of the important thing issues that Intel confirmed throughout its Investor Meeting occasion this week is shortening its Xeon introduction cadence from 18-24 months all the way down to 12-15 months, thus accelerating its server CPU roadmap.
In the approaching months Intel will launch two Xeon processors that can belong to the identical platform: Cooper Lake CPUs made utilizing Intel’s 14 nm manufacturing expertise, and Ice Lake chips produced utilizing Intel’s 10 nm node. Cooper Lake will supply excessive core counts and can completely assist AVX512_BF16 (bfloat16) directions that can profit machine studying and near-sensor computing functions, whereas Ice Lake is about to develop into Intel’s first Xeon made utilizing 10 nm course of expertise and based mostly on a brand new microarchitecture providing increased per-core efficiency. At current, Intel is already sampling Cooper Lake and Ice Lake processors with prospects, and claims that it’s on monitor to ship these CPUs in volumes within the first half of subsequent 12 months.
Intel will launch its Ice Lake Xeon processors round 4 quarters after its Cascade Lake Xeon processors, a shorter than ordinary timeframe between Xeon releases. According to the chip big, it will develop into its new introduction cadence and going ahead it is going to launch new generations of Xeon platforms each 4 to 5 quarters, down from 5 to seven quarters in the present day.
Following the Ice Lake Xeon in 2020, Intel plans to launch ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processors for servers in 2021. These chips will probably be made utilizing Intel’s 10++ nm course of expertise and can depend on a brand new microarchitecture together with numerous enhancements to optimize efficiency in numerous workloads. We count on the platform to assist new connectivity requirements given the introduction timeframe. Meanwhile, it’s too early to debate CPU core depend, platform capabilities, and different peculiarities. Following the Sapphire Rapids will come Intel’s ‘Next-Gen’ server CPU in 2022 that could be made utilizing a variation of Intel’s 7 nm course of expertise, relying on how manufacturing goes.
Intel’s Xeon processors will proceed to be the corporate’s key elements for datacenters, however there can be a number of different merchandise for different datacenter workloads, together with Xe GPUs, a wide range of FPGAs and others. Having acquired or developed a great deal of completely different IP within the current years, Intel pins a number of hopes on its diversified product portfolio that can complement next-gen Xeons.
Source: Intel
