The xeon 'ice lake

The latest Intel Xeon roadmap for next-generation server processors and their respective platforms has been leaked by WikiChip . The roadmap provides a summary of the main features that can be expected from the next Intel server families, among which are named 10nm Ice Lake-SP, Sapphire Rapids-SP and the Granite Rapids-SP series.

Xeon Ice Lake-SP processors will have PCIe 4.0 support and chips up to 26 cores

Intel confirmed in its public roadmap that it will launch the 14nm Cooper Lake-SP and 10nm Ice Lake-SP product line in 2020, Sapphire Rapids-SP in 2021, and then a next-generation Xeon family in 2022. The latest roadmap leak confirms all of this and also provides additional information on some of the main features.

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We start with the 14nm Cooper Lake-SP family that will be part of the Whitley platform and will have up to 48 cores (Cooper Lake-AP), 8-channel DDR4 memory and PCIe 3.0 support. The latest Barlow Pass Optane DIMMs would also be Whitley compatible, so we should expect a good performance boost. Cooper Lake will also be available for 4S and 8S servers with Xeon CPU configurations of up to 26 cores, support for 6-channel DDR4 memory, and support for PCIe 3.0.

Ice Lake-SP processors will be available around the second quarter of 2020 and will feature a 10nm node. The chips will have up to 26 cores and will support 8 channels of DDR4 memory. Most interestingly, Ice Lake-SP would be PCIe 4.0 compliant, which will be coming to AMD's EPYC processors this year in the third quarter of 2019. Ice Lake-SP processors would build on the new Sunny Cove architecture, which will It is expected to provide double-digit CPI gains and a much-needed increase in efficiency.

Finally, the Xeon 'Ice Lake-SP' chips will make use of an improved 10nm + node, something that has been common at Intel improving its nodes year by year.

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