Intel shows Xeon roadmap and comes with 10nm server processors in 2020

Intel has shown a roadmap with the upcoming Xeon server processors. It shows that the company’s first 10nm server CPUs will appear in 2020. First there will be two generations that will be made on the 14nm process.

At its Data-Centric Innovation Summit, Intel announces that the Ice Lake-SP processors will be delivered in 2020. These are Intel’s first server processors on the new 10nm process. The Ice Lake chips will run on the same platform as Cooper Lake-SP, which is due out in 2019. According to AnandTech, this concerns the lga4189 socket, with eight memory channels per socket.

Intel has Cascade Lake-SP planned for the fourth quarter of this year. Those 14nm processors are largely based on Skylake-SP, but have a number of improvements, including hardware security measures. Cascade Lake also supports Intel’s Optane storage and adds new artificial intelligence features that Intel calls DL Boost.

It is not yet clear when the 10nm server processors will be released in 2020. Intel typically has a 12 to 18 month gap between the introduction of new server processors. If the Cascade Lake models come out at the end of this year and Cooper Lake appears a year later, the 10nm processors of the Ice Lake generation will not follow until the end of 2020 if Intel does not deviate from its introduction schedule.

Competitor AMD will release its second generation Epyc server processors next year, which are made on a 7nm process. AMD has already sent early samples to partners. The 7nm process that AMD uses for its processors is comparable to Intel’s 10nm. Unlike AMD, Intel first releases 10nm consumer processors, mass production of which should start in 2019.

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